Climate variability and ecosystem response at long-term ecological research sites / edited by David Greenland, Douglas G. Goodin, Raymond C. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenland, David, 1940-

Goodin, Douglas G. (Douglas Gard)

Smith, R. C. (Raymond Calvin), 1934-

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Long-Term Ecological Research Network series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioclimatology.

Ecology--Research.

Ecology.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

xvii, 459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

This volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series would present the work that has been done and the understanding and database that have been developed by work on climate change done at all the LTER sites. Global climate change is a central issue facing the world, which is being worked on by a very large number of scientists across a wide range of fields. The LTER sites hold some of the best available data measuring long term impacts and changes in the environment, and the research done at these sites has not previously been made widely available to the broader climate change research community. This book should appeal reasonably widely outside the ecological community, and because it pulls together information from all 20 research sites, it should capture the interest of virtually the entire LTER research community.

Contents:

1 An Introduction to Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response / David Greenland, Douglas G. Goodin, Raymond C. Smith 3

I Short-Term Climate Events

2 Hurricane Impacts in New England and Puerto Rico / Emery R. Boose 25

3 Drought Impacts on Tree Growth and Mortality of Southern Appalachian Forests / Brain D. Kloeppel, Barton D. Clinton, James M. Vose, Aaron R. Cooper 43

4 Climate Variability in the North Central Region: Characterizing Drought Severity Patterns / Stuart H. Gage 56

5 Climate Forcing at the Arctic LTER Site / John E. Hobbie, Neil Bettez, Linda A. Deegan, James A. Laundre, Sally MacIntyre, Steven Oberbauer, W. John O'Brien, Gaius Shaver, Karie Slavik 74

Short-Term Climatic Events

Synthesis / David Greenland 92

II The Quasi-Quintennial Timescale

6 An LTER Network Overview and Introduction to EI Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Climatic Signal and Response / David Greenland 102

7 The Climate of the Central Arizona and Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Site (CAP LTER) and Links to ENSO / Anthony J. Brazel, Andrew W. Ellis 117

8 Watershed Hydrological and Chemical Responses to Precipitation Variability in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico / Douglas Schaefer 141

9 Climate Variability and Ecological Response of the Marine Ecosystem in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) Region / Raymond C. Smith, William R. Fraser, Sharon E. Stammerjohn 158

10 Climate and Hydrologic Variations and Implications for Lake and Stream Ecological Response in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica / Kathleen A. Welch, W. Berry Lyons, Diane M. McKnight, Peter T. Doran, Andrew G. Fountain, Diana Wall, Chris Jaros, Thomas Nylen, Clive Howard-Williams 174

The Quasi-Quintennial Timescale

Synthesis / Raymond C. Smith, Xiaojun Yuan, Jiping Liu, Douglas G. Martinson, Sharon E. Stammerjohn 196

III The Interdecadal Timescale

11 Interdecadal-Scale Variability: An Assessment of LTER Climate Data / Maurice J. McHugh, Douglas G. Goodin 213

12 A 200-Year Perspective of Climate Variability and the Response of White Spruce in Interior Alaska / Glenn Patrick Juday, Valerie Barber, Scott Rupp, John Zasada, Martin Wilmking 226

13 Decadal Climate Variation and Coho Salmon Catch / David Greenland 251

14 Decadal and Century-Long Changes in Storminess at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites / Bruce P. Hayden, Nils R. Hayden 262

15 Multidecadal Drought Cycles in South-Central New Mexico: Patterns and Consequences / Bruce T. Milne, Douglas I. Moore, Julio L. Betancourt, James A. Parks, Thomas W. Swetnam, Robert R. Parmenter, William T. Pockman 286

The Interdecadal Timescale

Synthesis / Douglas G. Goodin, Maurice J. McHugh 308

IV Century to Millennial Timescale

16 Century- to Millennial-Scale Climate Change and Ecosystem Response in Taylor Valley, Antarctica / Andrew G. Fountain, W. Berry Lyons 319

17 Millennial-Scale Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at the Jornada LTER Site / H. Curtis Monger 341

18 Millennial and Century Climate Changes in the Colorado Alpine / Scott Elias 370

Century to Millennial Timescale

Synthesis / Douglas G. Goodin, Raymond C. Smith 384

V Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Selected LTER Sites at Multiple Timescales

19 Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at the H. J. Andrews Long-Term Ecological Research Site / David Greenland, Frederick Bierlmaier, Mark Harmon, Julia Jones, Arthur McKee, Joseph Means, Frederick J. Swanson, Cathy Whitlock 393

20 Climate Variability in Tallgrass Prairie at Multiple Timescales: Konza Prairie Biological Station / Douglas G. Goodin, Philip A. Fay, Maurice J. McHugh 411

21 Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response

Synthesis / David Greenland, Douglas G. Goodin, Raymond C. Smith, Frederick J. Swanson 425.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0195150597

OCLC:

50676979