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The Impacts of Climate Variability on Forests

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Martin Beniston
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  2. John L. Innes
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  • interactions between physical and biological elements of the Earth System - integration of numerical modeling, statistical analysis and palaeoenvironmental approaches

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (LNEARTH, volume 74)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. The impact of climatic extremes on forests: An introduction

    • John L. Innes
    Pages 1-18

  3. Meteorological extremes and their impacts on forests in the czech republic

    • Rudolf Brázdil
    Pages 19-47

  4. Changes in temperature variability in relation to shifts in mean temperatures in the swiss alpine region this century

    • Martine Rebetez, Martin Beniston
    Pages 49-58

  5. Evaluation of the 2xCO2 impact on european climate variability with a variable resolution GCM

    • Michel Déqué, Francisco Javier Doblas-Reyes
    Pages 59-79

  6. Precipitation and snow cover variability in the french alps

    • Eric Martin, Yves Durand
    Pages 81-92

  7. Influence of forest cover in the eastern united states on regional climate

    • Robert L. Walko, Roger A. Pielke, Pier Luigi Vidale, Joe Eastman, Lixin Lu
    Pages 93-98

  8. Extremes of moisture availability reconstructed from tree rings for recent millennia in the great basin of western north America

    • Malcolm K. Hughes, Gary Funkhouser
    Pages 99-107

  9. Predictive models of tree-growth: preliminary results in the French Alps

    • Lucien Tessier, Thierry Keller, Joel Guiot, Jean-Louis Edouard, Frédéric Guibal
    Pages 109-120

  10. Documenting the effects of recent climate change at treeline in the canadian rockies

    • Brian H. Luckman, Trudy A. Kavanagh
    Pages 121-144

  11. Annual- versus decadal-scale climatic influences on tree establishment and mortality in northern Patagonia

    • Ricardo Villalba, Thomas T. Veblen
    Pages 145-170

  12. High-altitude forest sensitivity to global warming: results from long-term and short-term analyses in the eastern italian alps

    • Marco Carrer, Tommaso Anfodillo, Carlo Urbinati, Vinicio Carraro
    Pages 171-189

  13. Climate, limiting factors and environmental change in high-altitude forests of Western North America

    • David L. Peterson
    Pages 191-208

  14. Managing swiss forests: when climate intervenes

    • Jean Combe
    Pages 209-219

  15. Worldwide positions of alpine treelines and their causes

    • Christian Körner
    Pages 221-229

  16. Vascular plant species richness in relation to altitudinal and slope gradients in mountain landscapes of central norway

    • Jarle I. Holten
    Pages 231-239

  17. Environmental information from stable isotopes in tree rings of Fagus sylvatica

    • Matthias Saurer, Rolf Siegwolf, Silvio Borella, Fritz Schweingruber
    Pages 241-253

  18. Simulated impacts of mean vs. intra-snnual climate changes on forests

    • Rüdiger Grote, Gerd Bürger, Felicitas Suckow
    Pages 255-271

  19. Sensitivity analysis of a forest gap model concerning current and future climate variability

    • Petra Lasch, Felicitas Suckow, Gerd Bürger, Marcus Lindner
    Pages 273-288

  20. Simulated effects of bark beetle infestations on stand dynamics in Picea abies stands: coupling a patch model and a stand risk model

    • Manfred J. Lexer, Karl Hönninger
    Pages 289-308
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This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop on the impacts of climatic variability held in Wengen, Switzerland, September 1997. For the first time, an assessment is made of the interactions between physical and biological elements of the Earth System on the basis of shifts in extreme climatic conditions, rather than simply changes in mean atmospheric conditions which research has tended to focus on until recently. Natural ecosystems and forests are typical examples of systems which, while constrained within certain ranges of mean climate, can undergo rapid and often irreversible damage in the face of short-lived but intense extreme events.

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