Suchergebnisse

8. Making the Ground Put Forth Grass: The Relationship Between Climate and VegetationClimate and Vegetation; Climate-Vegetation Relationships in a Changing World; Concluding Comments; 9. Feeding the Lions: The Conservation of Biological Diversity on a Changing Planet; On the Conservation of the Bright and Beautiful, Big and Dangerous; The Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene; Conserving Diversity on a Changing Planet; Concluding Comments; 10. Making Weather and Influencing Climate: Human Engineering of the Earth; Making Weather; Geoengineering: Climate Modification.

H.H. ("Hank") Shugart is a systems ecologist who has developed and tested models of biogeochemical cycles, energy flow and secondary succession. He uses individual-based computer models to simulate changes in forest structure and composition over time and in response to environmental change. Ian Woodward is a plant ecologist interested in the impacts of climate and changing carbon dioxide concentrations on plants and vegetation. His research on global climate change makes extensive uses of dynamic global vegetation models.