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Hans Meltofte, National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Arctic Environment, Denmark
Torben Christensen, GeoBiosphere Science Centre, Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis, Lund University, Sweden
Bo Elberling, National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Arctic Environment, University of Aarhus, Roskilde, Denmark
Mads Forchhammer, National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Arctic Environment, Centre for Integrated Population Ecology, University of Aarhus, Roskilde, Denmark
Morten Rasch, Danish Polar Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Included in series
Advances in Ecological Research,
Audience
Ecologists, environmentalists, terrestrial ecologists
Contents
PART 1 BACKGROUND
1 Introduction
By Hans Meltofte, Torben R. Christensen, Bo Elberling, Mads C. Forchhammer & Morten Rasch
2 Climate
and climate change with an arctic perspective
By Martin Stendel, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen & Dorthe Petersen
3 Late Quaternary geology,
biology and archaeology of the Wollaston Forland region, East Greenland
By Ole Bennike, Claus Andreassen,, Louis Beyens, Jens Bocher,
Hanne H. Christiansen, Bent Fredskild, Ole Humlum, Bjarne Holm Jacobsen, Erik Jeppesen, David R. Klein, Mikkel S?rensen & Pieter Ledeganck
4 Adaptations, invasions, dispersal and pollination
By David R. Klein, Mads C. Forchhammer, Rebekka Lundgren, Hans Henrik Bruun & Kirsten
Christoffersen
5 The study area
By Hans Meltofte & Morten Rasch
PART 2 PRESENT PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT AND PROCESSES
6 The present
climate
By Birger Ulf Hansen, Charlotte Sigsgaard, Dorthe Petersen, Sebastian Haugaard Mernild & Morten Rasch
7 Permafrost and periglacial
geomorphology
By Hanne H. Christiansen, Ole Humlum, Charlotte Sigsgaard, Birger Ulf Hansen, Bent Hasholt & Morten Rasch
8 Snow distribution
and melt
By Birger Ulf Hansen, J?rgen Hinkler, Mikkel Tamstorf, Hanne H. Christiansen & Dorthe Petersen
9 Hydrological processes
By
Bent Hasholt, Dorthe Petersen, Sebastian Haugaard Mernild, Morten Rasch, Bjarne Holm Jakobsen, Charlotte Sigsgaard, J?rgen Hinkler, Birger
Ulf Hansen, Bo Elberling & S?ren Rysgaard
PART 3 ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES
10 Soil and plant community characteristics
By Bo Elberling,
Anders Michelsen, Bjarne Holm Jakobsen, Mikkel Tamstorf, Charlotte Sigsgaard, Christian Bay, Lotte Illeris, Louis Beyens, Birger Ulf
Hansen & Morten Rasch
11 Inter-annual variability of plant phenology and productivity
By Susanne M. Konig, Lotte Illeris, Anders Michelsen,
Mikkel Tamstorf & Birger Ulf Hansen
12 Plant-herbivore interactions
By Thomas B. Berg, Mads C. Forchhammer, Peter J. Aastrup, Toke
T. H?ye & David R. Klein
13 Invertebrates and climate: spatio-temporal changes in phenology, dynamics and diversity
By Toke T. H?ye & Mads C. Forchhammer
14 Effects of food availability, climate and predation on breeding performance of waders
By Hans Meltofte, Toke
T. H?ye, Niels M. Schmidt, Mads C. Forchhammer, Jannik Hansen & Ditte Katrine Hendrichsen
15 Vertebrate predator-prey interactions
By
Niels M. Schmidt, Thomas B. Berg, Mads C. Forchhammer, Toke T. H?ye, Line A. Kyhn, Hans Meltofte & Hans Pedersen
16 Lake flora and fauna
in relation to ice-melt, water temperature and chemistry
By Kirsten Christoffersen & Erik Jeppesen
17 Interspecific variation in population
dynamical responses to climate change
By Mads C. Forchhammer, Niels M. Schmidt, Toke T. H?ye & Erik Jeppesen
18 Solar ultraviolet-B
radiation (UV-B) in Zackenberg: inter-annual variability and the impact on higher plants and microbial communities
By Kristian Albert,
Linda Bredahl, Paul Eriksen, Kirsten B. H?kansson, Teis N. Mikkelsen, Riikka Rinan & Helge Ro-Poulsen
19 Control of soil CO2 and CH4
production by soil temperatures, freezing and snowmelt
By Bo Elberling, Claus Nordstr?m, Louise Gr?ndahl, Henrik S?gaard, Thomas Friborg & Torben R. Christensen
20 Spatial and inter-annual variability of trace gas fluxes in a heterogeneous landscape
By Louise Gr?ndahl,
Thomas Friborg, Torben R. Christensen, Anna Ekberg, Bo Elberling, Nanna H?egh, Lotte Illeris, Fleur Marchand, Ivan Nijs, Claus Nordstr?m,
Charlotte Sigsgaard & Henrik S?gaard
PART 4 ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES
21 Zackenberg in a circumpolar context: the behaviour of selected
ecosystem elements in relation to changes in large-scale climate
By Mads C. Forchhammer, Torben R. Christensen, Birger Ulf Hansen, Mikkel
P. Tamstorf, J?rgen Hinkler, Niels M. Schmidt & Toke T. H?ye
22 Modelling ecosystem responses to future climate: a first step
Mads
C. Forchhammer & Torben R. Christensen
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Hardbound, 596 pages, publication date: MAY-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-373665-9
ISBN-10: 0-12-373665-X
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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