Ulrich Lüttge

Christoph Leuschner

Francisco M. Cánovas

María-Carmen Risueño

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on plant physiology, biochemistry, genetics and genomics, forests, and ecosystems.

Progress in Botany Vol. 81

Teja Tscharntke

Edi Guhardja

Arifuddin Bidin

Edzo Veldkamp

Heiko Faust

not only for land use systems that depend on the regular supply of rain or irrigation water but also for the future development of natural rainforests as drought stress has been shown to a?ect tree growth and species composition in old-growth forests (Wright 1991, Walsh and Newbery 1999, Engelbrecht et al. 2007). A drought experiment conducted in a cacao agroforestry plantation showed that this plantation was surprisingly resilient to an induced drought of more than a year (Schwendenmann et al. 2009). However, droughts can have a strong impact on household incomes from agriculture, they strongly a?ect the vulnerability to poverty and thus have to be analyzed as important exogenous shocks to households, forcing them to adjust their behaviour and develop strategies to cope with these problems. The stability of rainforest margins is a critical factor in the protection of tropical rainforests (Tscharntke et al. 2007). At present, however, rainf- est margins in many parts of the tropics are far from stable, both in soc- economic and in ecological terms. For example, protected areas may attract, rather than repel, human settlement, which may be due to international donor investment in national conservation programs (Wittemeyer et al. 2008). An alternative hypothesis is that protected areas might be compromised if leakage takes place, that is, if impacts that would take place inside the restricted area are displaced to a nearby, undisturbed area (Ewers and Rodrigues 2008).

Ecological and Socio-economic Valuations

Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change

Markus Hauck

Jürgen Homeier

Das Buch stellt eine Bestandsaufnahme dar, welche Veränderungen in der terrestrischen Vegetation der Erde bereits heute mit Gewissheit oder hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit durch den Klimawandel eingetreten sind. Grundlage dieser Bilanz bilden empirische Daten zu Veränderungen in der Zusammensetzung, Vitalität und Produktivität der Vegetation, die durch die Ergebnisse von Experimenten ergänzt werden, um Kausalitäten besser aufzeigen zu können. So werden, geordnet nach Biomen, die weitreichenden Folgen für die terrestrischen Ökosysteme der Erde aufgezeigt. Die Klimaerwärmung und von ihr abhängige Effekte auf den Wasserkreislauf und die Kryosphäre verändern die Standortbedingungen für die Vegetation. Die Konsequenzen für die Verbreitung und Konkurrenzfähigkeit von Arten sowie für die Biodiversität, Produktivität und den Wasser-, Kohlenstoff- und Nährstoffhaushalt von Ökosystemen werden im Detail besprochen. Der Leser soll so in die Lage versetzt werden, die Folgen des bereits eingetretenen Klimawandels für die Vegetation zu beurteilen.

Klimawandel und Vegetation - Eine globale Übersicht

Heinz Ellenberg

This handbook in two volumes synthesises our knowledge about the ecology of Central Europe’s plant cover with its 7000-yr history of human impact, covering Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based on a thorough literature review with 5500 cited references and nearly 1000 figures and tables, the two books review in 26 chapters all major natural and man-made vegetation types with their climatic and edaphic influences, the structure and dynamics of their communities, the ecophysiology of important plant species, and key aspects of ecosystem functioning. Volume I deals with forests and scrub vegetation and analyses the ecology of Central Europe’s tree flora, whilst Volume II is dedicated to the non-forest vegetation covering mires, grasslands, heaths, alpine habitats and urban vegetation. The consequences of over-use, pollution and recent climate change over the last century are explored and conservation issues addressed.

Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe

Ecology of Central European Non-Forest Vegetation: Coastal to Alpine, Natural to Man-Made Habitats

Manfred Zeller

Tropical rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate, causing unprecedented losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services. This book contributes to an improved understanding of the processes that have destabilizing effects on ecological and socio-economic systems of tropical rain forest margins, as well as striving to integrate environmental, technological and socio-economic issues in their solution.

Linking Ecological, Economic and Social Constraints of Land Use and Conservation

Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins

This handbook in two volumes synthesises our knowledge about the ecology of Central Europe’s plant cover with its 7000-yr history of human impact, covering Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based on a thorough literature review with 5500 cited references and nearly 1000 figures and tables, the two books review in 26 chapters all major natural and man-made vegetation types with their climatic and edaphic influences, the structure and dynamics of their communities, the ecophysiology of important plant species, and key aspects of ecosystem functioning. Volume I deals with the forests and scrub vegetation and analyses the ecology of Central Europe’s tree flora, whilst Volume II is dedicated to the non-forest vegetation covering mires, grasslands, heaths, alpine habitats and urban vegetation. The consequences of over-use, pollution and recent climate change over the last century are explored and conservation issues addressed.

Christoph Leuschner

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