Tundras : vegetation, wildlife and climate trends / Beltran Gutierrez and Cristos Pena, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gutierrez, Beltran.

Pena, Cristos.

Series:

Environmental research advances series.

Environmental research advances series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tundra ecology.

Tundras.

Physical Description:

xv, 205 p. : ill. (some col.), maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tundra ecosystems are seriously affected by global climate change. In this book, the authors analyse changes which have occurred in a vegetative cover and aboveground fauna of vertebrates at Yamal peninsula, one of the greatest plains on the globe.

Contents:

Intro

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH ADVANCES SERIES

BELTRAN GUTIERREZ

CRISTOS PENA

CONTENTS

PREFACE

THE CHANGE OF TUNDRA BIOTA AT YAMAL PENINSULA (THE NORTH OF THE WESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA) IN CONNECTION WITH ANTHROPOGENIC AND CLIMATIC SHIFTS

THE RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HIGH LATITUDE CLIMATE CHANGES AND THE ECOLOGY OF TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOTA: EMERGING THEORIES,MODELS,AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE, ESPECIALLY RELATED TO GLOBAL WARMING

SOIL AND PLANT CHARACTERISTICS IN THE ALPINE TUNDRA (NW ITALY)

MODERN CLIMATE TRENDS AND POSSIBLE CHANGING OF ARCTIC COASTAL ZONE (RUSSIAN SECTOR)

ALPINE MEADOW ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU WAS A CO2 SINK IN PEAK GROWING SEASON REVEALED BY KEELING PLOT METHOD

TUNDRAS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: AMAMMALIAN PERSPECTIVE

CARBON DEPOSITION ON THE FORESTS OF SOME TREELINE ECOTONES OF THE URAL FEDERAL DISTRICT

GENETIC DIVERSITY AND POPULATION STRUCTURE OF ALPINE PLANTS ENDEMIC TO QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION UNDER GLOBAL WARMING

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61209-356-6

OCLC:

694362329