Climate Change - Geophysical Foundations and Ecological Effects - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 9533074191 ISBN 13: 9789533074191

Casa editrice: IntechOpen, 2011

Riassunto

This book offers an interdisciplinary view of the biophysical issues related to climate change. Climate change is a phenomenon by which the long-term averages of weather events (i.e. temperature, precipitation, wind speed, etc.) that define the climate of a region are not constant but change over time. There have been a series of past periods of climatic change, registered in historical or paleoecological records. In the first section of this book, a series of state-of-the-art research projects explore the biophysical causes for climate change and the techniques currently being used and developed for its detection in several regions of the world. The second section of the book explores the effects that have been reported already on the flora and fauna in different ecosystems around the globe. Among them, the ecosystems and landscapes in arctic and alpine regions are expected to be among the most affected by the change in climate, as they will suffer the more intense changes. The final section of this book explores in detail those issues.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: IntechOpen
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9533074191
• ISBN 13: 9789533074191
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 536
• Redattore: Blanco Juan A., Kheradmand Houshang
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile