Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change (eBook)

1. Cretaceous and Tertiary climate change and the past distribution of megathermal rain forest.- 2. Andean Montane forests and climate change.- 3. Climate change in the lowlands of the Amazon Basin.- 4. The Quaternary history of far eastern rainforests.- 5. Rain Forest responses to past climatic changes in Tropical Africa.- 6. Tropical environment dynamics: a modelling perspective.- 7. Prehistoric human occupation and impacts on Neotropical forest landscapes during the Late Pleistocene and Early/Middle Holocene.- 8. Ultraviolet insolation and the Tropical Rain Forest: altitudinal variations, Quaternary and recent change, extinctions and biodiversity.- 9. Climate change and hydrological models of the wet tropics.- 10. Plant species diversity in Amazonian Forests.- 11. Nutrient cycling and climate change in tropical forests.- 12. The response of South American tropical rain forests to contemporary atmospheric change.- 13. Ecophysiological response of lowland tropical plants to Pleistocene climate.- 14.Modelling future effects of climate change on tropical forests.- 15. Conservation, climate change and tropical forests.