Grasslands and Climate Change

A comprehensive assessment of the effects of climate change on global grasslands and the mitigating role that ecologists can play.

About the author

David J. Gibson FRSB is Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Ecology, the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology, and has written two books, Grasses and Grassland Ecology (2008) and Methods in Comparative Plant Population Ecology (2nd edition, 2014).Jonathan A. Newman is Dean of the College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, where he was also the founding Director of the School of Environmental Sciences and Chair of the Department of Environmental Biology. He is the lead author of Climate Change Biology (2011) and Defending Biodiversity (Cambridge, 2017) and has published more than 100 scientific journal articles.

Summary

Grasslands are extremely important for forage, biodiversity, and ecosystem services across the globe. Climate change is affecting this biome in ways we are only starting to understand, and this book documents the current state of knowledge, drawing on research from an international team of grassland ecology experts.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jonathan A. Newman (Editor), David J. Gibson (Editor), Jonathan A. (University of Guelph Newman (Editor), David J. (Southern Illinois University Gibson (Editor)
• Authors: David J. Gibson, David J. (Southern Illinois University Gibson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.04.2019
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology
• EAN: 9781107195264
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19526-4
• Pages: 376
• Series: Ecological Reviews; Ecological Reviews
• Subjects: NATURE / Ecology; Meteorology & climatology; Meteorology and climatology; Grasslands, heaths, prairies, tundra; Plains and grasslands