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Klappentext This book compiles the latest research on the effects of climate change on biodiversity in the Americas and the sustainability efforts being made to preserve the ecological integrity of these regions. Scientists working in Canada! Puerto Rico! Argentina! the USA! Mexico! Panama! and Costa Rica contribute their findings in such varied areas as avian populations! the impacts of climate extremes on biodiversity! carbon storage in tree plantations! and the relationship between precipitation and vegetation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Avian Response to Climate Change in British Columbia - Toward a General Model Chapter 4 Population Trends of Montane Birds in Southwestern Puerto Rico: Eight Years After the Passage of Hurricane Georges Chapter 5 Regional Bird Monitoring as a Tool for Predicting the Effects of Land Use and Climate Change on Pampas Biodiversity Chapter 6 Impacts of Climate Extremes on Biodiversity in the Americas Chapter 7 Phenological Changes of Mammillaria mathildae Associated to Climatic Change in a Deciduous Tropical Forest Chapter 8 Tropical Tree Plantations with Native Species: Linking Carbon Storage with Concerns for Biodiversity Chapter 9 Biomass and Carbon Accumulation in Secondary Forests and Forest Plantations Used as Restoration Tool in the Caribbean Region of Costa Rica Chapter 10 Climate Change and Snow Depth Impacts on Vegetation at the Great Basin Desert - Sierra Nevada Ecotone Chapter 11 Appendix: Panama Statement Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Contributors
