Vegetation Dynamics & Global Change

Contributors. Preface. Part I: Introduction: Global change-- Herman H. Shugart; Biotic responses to global environmental change: Biospheric implications of global environmental change-- Allen M. Solomon and Wolfgang P. Cramer; CO2 fertilization: the great uncertainty in future vegetation development-- Christian Korner; Leaf responses to the environment and extrapolation to larger scales-- F. I. Woodward; The prediction and physiological significance of tree height-- A. D. Friend; Uncertainties in the terrestrial carbon cycle-- W. M. Post; Coupling of the atmosphere with vegetation-- Philippe Martin; Part III: Measuring global vegetation change: Monitoring vegetation change using satellite data-- B. N. Rock, D. L. Skole and B. J. Choudhury; Global geographic information systems and databases for vegetation change studies-- David L. Skole, Berrien Moore III and Walter H. Chomentowski; Assessing impacts of climate change on vegetation using climate classification systems-- Wolfgang P. Cramer and Rik Leemans; Vegetation diversity and classification systems-- G. Grabherr and S. Kojima; Part IV: Modeling global vegetation change: Modeling large-scale vegetation dynamics-- I. Colin Prentice, Robert A. Monserud, Thomas M. Smith and William R. Emanuel; Rapid simulations of vegetation stand dynamics with mixed life-forms-- Mark R. Fulton; Plant functional types-- T. M. Smith, H. H. Shugart, F. I. Woodward and P. J. Burton; Vegetation functional classification systems as approaches to predicting and quantifying global vegetation change-- J. P. Grime; Modeling crop responses to environmental change-- Cynthia Rosenzwieg; Concluding comments; Index.