Ecosystems Impacts and Indicators Global Change
Ecosystems Impacts and Indicators Global Change
Ecosystems
An ecosystem is a community of organisms and their physical environment interacting as an ecological unit. Examples include wetlands, forests, tundra, glaciers, prairies, and deserts. This category is for websites that describe the effects and influences of global change in ecosystems.
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- Information from an International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) core project for research on responses to rising carbon dioxide levels and other perturbations.
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- A paper by the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Convention on Wetlands. Provides an overview of the importance and distribution of wetlands, and a detailed examination of the consequences of recent and projected changes.
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- Essays on the relevance of weather, climate and fisheries to the ecosystem. Includes sea ice datasets, recent trends, maps, and photographs.
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- Presentation by Lonnie G. Thompson of Ohio State University. Includes discussion of certainties and probabilities, photographic evidence, graphs, graphical representation of 20th century changes in ice cover, and distribution maps.
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- WWF paper that describes and explains glacier loss, and examines the risks posed to specific regions, habitats, and species.
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- Includes state of the environment reporting, a dynamic set of environmental indicators, programs and reports on ecosystem science, monitoring, and research.
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- Describes the sensitivity to environmental change of high mountain lakes, and assesses their use as early warning systems. Includes diagrams, graphs, references, and pictures. From Roland Psenner, Professor of Limnology at the University of Innsbruck.
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