Climate change, glacier response, an...
Mal, Suraj.

 

  • Climate change, glacier response, and vegetation dynamics in the Himalaya[electronic resource] :contributions toward future Earth initiatives /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 577.22095496
    書名/作者: Climate change, glacier response, and vegetation dynamics in the Himalaya : contributions toward future Earth initiatives // edited by R.B. Singh, Udo Schickhoff, Suraj Mal.
    其他作者: Schickhoff, Udo.
    出版者: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, 2016.
    面頁冊數: xvi, 399 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Climatic changes - Himalaya Mountains Region.
    標題: Glaciers - Climatic factors - Himalaya Mountains Region.
    標題: Vegetation and climate - Himalaya Mountains Region.
    標題: Geography.
    標題: Physical Geography.
    標題: Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.
    標題: Natural Hazards.
    ISBN: 9783319289779
    ISBN: 9783319289755
    摘要、提要註: This book provides information essential for anyone interested in climate and environmental change of the Himalayan region, including land and resource managers, environmental planners, conservationists, environmentalists, geographers, climatologists, ecologists, and students. The book is unique in its coverage of the current understanding of the science of climate change in the Himalayan mountain system and of the major impacts on physical systems and ecosystems. The book gives an overview of the physical science basis of climate change and explains drivers and processes of glacier and vegetation dynamics. The book covers relevant aspects of accelerated climate change observed in the Himalayan mountain system, and highlights the regional differentiation of climatic changes and associated environmental modifications. The focus is on climate variability and change, and how physical systems and ecosystems respond to climate change impacts. Consequences include impacts on physical systems such as glacier shrinkage, glacial lake outburst floods, altered hydrological characteristics, permafrost warming and thawing, and mass movements on slopes. Climate change is also a powerful stressor on ecosystems and induces range shifts of plant and animal species and alterations in terms of phenology, biomass, plant cover, plant group dominance and species composition. Thus, ecosystem structure and functioning will be strongly affected. The book has an introductory chapter followed by a section on climate change, a section on impacts on glaciers and hydrology, and a section on vegetation dynamics. Each section has several chapters presenting key concepts, major drivers and key processes of environmental change in the Himalayan region from different perspectives. Climate change impacts in the Himalaya have not been studied in much detail, and respective findings were not presented so far in a comprehensive overview. This book summarizes the current knowledge of interactions between climate change and the dynamics of glaciers, hydrology, and vegetation.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28977-9
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