Forests and Climate Change: Biological Perspectives on Impact, Adaptation, and Mitigation Strategies
Singh, Hukum
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-10-18
- 售價: $9,590
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $9,111
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 987
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 9819739047
- ISBN-13: 9789819739042
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商品描述
This book comprehensively examines the complex relationship between forests and climate change from a biological perspective. It explores the effects of climate change, such as rising temperatures, greenhouse gas emissions, changing rainfall patterns, droughts, and cold spells, on individual trees and forest ecosystems. It considers how climate change affects forest structure, function, composition, and biodiversity, and the adaptive strategies forests employ to cope with changing conditions.
The book focuses on understanding the adaptive capacity of forests and explores different mechanisms at stand and ecosystem levels that enable forests to respond to changing climatic conditions. It discusses how forests acclimate and adapt to new climates by modulating growth rates, morphology, phenology, physiology, biochemistry, and species composition. The role of genetic diversity and evolutionary processes in shaping forest resilience and adaptation is also explored. The book also explores potential mitigation strategies to reduce the impacts of climate change. Besides, this book discusses the ecological principles and the involvement of local communities in conservation and restoration efforts as alternative strategies to enhance the resilience of forest ecosystems against climate change.
The book provides practical recommendations for policy makers, forest managers, and conservation practitioners to develop effective climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in forest landscapes. This book serves as a valuable resource and a guide for researchers, students, and professionals in various fields to protect and sustainably manage vital ecosystems in a rapidly changing climate.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書從生物學的角度全面探討了森林與氣候變化之間的複雜關係。它探討了氣候變化對個別樹木和森林生態系統的影響,如氣溫上升、溫室氣體排放、降雨模式變化、乾旱和寒冷天氣等。它考慮了氣候變化對森林結構、功能、組成和生物多樣性的影響,以及森林應對變化條件的適應策略。
本書著重於理解森林的適應能力,並探討不同機制在林分和生態系統層面上使森林能夠應對氣候變化。它討論了森林如何通過調節生長速率、形態、物候、生理、生化和物種組成來適應新的氣候。本書還探討了遺傳多樣性和進化過程在塑造森林韌性和適應能力方面的作用。此外,本書還探討了減輕氣候變化影響的潛在緩解策略。此外,本書還討論了生態學原則和地方社區在保護和恢復工作中的參與,作為增強森林生態系統對抗氣候變化韌性的替代策略。
本書提供了實際建議,供政策制定者、森林管理者和保護從業人員在森林景觀中制定有效的氣候變化適應和緩解策略。本書是研究人員、學生和各個領域專業人士在快速變化的氣候中保護和可持續管理重要生態系統的寶貴資源和指南。
作者簡介
Hukum Singh is a forest physiology and climate change scientist associated with the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun, India. His research covers eco-physiology, plant responses to abiotic stresses, green technology, climate change adaptation and mitigation, urban forestry, and more.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Hukum Singh是一位與印度德拉敦森林研究所相關的森林生理學和氣候變化科學家。他的研究涵蓋生態生理學、植物對非生物逆境的反應、綠色技術、氣候變化適應和緩解、城市林業等領域。