Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics (PDF)
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The global climate changes that led to the expansion and contraction of high latitude ice sheets during the Quaternary period were associated with equally dramatic changes in tropical environments. These included shifts in vegetation zones, changes in the...
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The global climate changes that led to the expansion and contraction of high latitude ice sheets during the Quaternary period were associated with equally dramatic changes in tropical environments. These included shifts in vegetation zones, changes in the hydrology and ecology of lakes and rivers, and fluctuations in the size of mountain glaciers and sandy deserts. Until recently it was thought that such changes were triggered by fluctuations in the distribution of polar ice cover. Now there is increasing recognition that the tropics themselves have acted as drivers of global climate change over a range of timescales.
The aim of Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics is to provide a synthesis of the changes that occurred in tropical terrestrial and marine systems during the Pleistocene and Holocene, complementing data-derived reconstructions with output from state-of-the-art climate models. It is targeted at final-year undergraduate students and research specialists, but will provide an introduction to tropical Quaternary research for a variety of other readers.
The aim of Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics is to provide a synthesis of the changes that occurred in tropical terrestrial and marine systems during the Pleistocene and Holocene, complementing data-derived reconstructions with output from state-of-the-art climate models. It is targeted at final-year undergraduate students and research specialists, but will provide an introduction to tropical Quaternary research for a variety of other readers.
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Outline of Contents Section A: Global contexts. 1. Introduction - Sarah Metcalfe and David Nash. 2. Contemporary climatology of the Tropics - Stefan Hastenrath. Section B: Regional climatic changes. 3. Tropical oceans -Jan-Berend Stuut and Stefan Mulitza. 4. Africa - David Nash and Michael Meadows. 5. Americas and Caribbean - Sarah Metcalfe and Mark Bush 6. China and Southeast Asia - Dan Penny. 7. India, the Middle East and Arabia - Ashok Singhvi and Ken Glennie. 8. Australasia and the Pacific Islands - Peter Kershaw. Section C: Global syntheses. 9. Modelling of Tropical environments during the Quaternary - author to be confirmed. 10. Quaternary environmental changes in the Tropics: a global synthesis - Sarah Metcalfe and David Nash
Autoren-Porträt
Sarah Metcalfe is Professor of Earth and EnvironmentalDynamics at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has
published extensively on environmental change in Latin America,
with a particular focus on Mexico. Although primarily a
palaeolimnologist, her approach is very much multi-proxy, including
the use of historical and instrumental records to help to improve
our understanding of recent change.
David Nash is Professor of Physical Geography at the
University of Brighton, UK. He is widely known for his publications
on the reconstruction of historical climate changes in southern
Africa, as well as his broader research into the contemporary and
Quaternary geomorphology of dryland regions including the Kalahari,
Atacama and southern Europe. His research uses methods ranging from
scanning electron microscopy and thin-section analysis to the
interpretation of historical documents.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2012, 1. Auflage, 296 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Sarah E. Metcalfe, David J. Nash
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 111833616X
- ISBN-13: 9781118336168
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.08.2012
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