EAN: 9783030424312

MOUNTAINS IN THE GREENHOUSE - DONALD MCKENZIE K...

This book is written for general readers with an interest in science  and offers the tools and
ideas for understanding how climate change will affect mountains of the American West. A major
goal of the book is to provide material that will not become quickly outdated  and it does so
by conveying its topics through constants in ecological science that will remain unchanged and
scientifically sound. The book is timely in its potential to be a long-term contribution  and
is designed to inform the public about climate change in mountains accessibly and intelligibly.
The major themes of the book include: 1) mountains of the American West as natural experiments
that can distinguish the effects of climate change because they have been relatively free from
human-caused changes  2) mountains as regions with unique sensitivities that may change more
rapidly than the Earth as a whole and foreshadow the nature and magnitude of change elsewhere 
and 3) different interacting components of ecosystems in the face of a changing climate 
including forest growth and mortality  ecological disturbance  and mountain hydrology. Readers
will learn how these changes and interactions in mountains illuminate the complexity of
ecological changes in other contexts around the world.

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