Large-scale experimentation allows scientists to test the specific responses of ecosystems to changing environmental conditions. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory together with other Federal and University scientists conducted a large-scale climatic change experiment at the Walker Branch Watershed in Tennessee, a model upland hardwood forest in North America. This volume synthesizes mechanisms of forest ecosystem response to changing hydrologic budgets associated with climatic change drivers. The authors explain the implications of changes at both the plant and stand levels, and they extrapolate the data to ecosystem-level responses, such as changes in nutrient cycling, biodiversity and carbon sequestration. In analyzing data, they also discuss similarities and differences with other temperate deciduous forests. Source data for the experiment has been archived by the authors in the U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center (CDIAC) for future analysis and modeling by independent investigators.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN-13
9781461265061
eBay Product ID (ePID)
140036738
Product Key Features
Author
Stan D. Wullschleger, Paul Hanson
Publication Name
North American Temperate Deciduous Forest Responses to Changing Precipitation Regimes
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Geography & Geosciences, Botany, Biology
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
472 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
166
Item Weight
765g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Ecological Studies
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Stan D. Wullschleger, Paul Hanson
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