| Ismail Serageldin, Alfredo Sfeir-Younis - 1996 - 328 pages
...water availability under doubled carbon dioxide equilibrium conditions will cause a substantial portion (a global average of one-third, varying by region from one-seventh to two-thirds) of the world's existing forested area to undergo major changes in broad vegetation types. Climate change is... | |
| G. O. Obasi, E. Dowdeswell - 1998 - 72 pages
...consequence of possible changes in temperature and water availability under doubled equivalent-CO2 equilibrium conditions, a substantial fraction (a...the greatest changes occurring in high latitudes and the'least in the tropics. Climate change is expected to occur at a rapid rate relative to the speed... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business - 1998 - 132 pages
...consequence of possible changes in temperature and water availability under doubled carbon dioxide equilibrium conditions, a substantial fraction (a...average of one-third, varying by region from one-seventh in tropical forests to two-thirds in Boreal forests) of the existing forested area of the world will... | |
| Brett Orlando, Lesley Smeardon - 1999 - 62 pages
...regional changes in climate will alter forest function and composition significantly. About one-third of the existing forested area of the world will undergo major changes in species composition, and some forests may entirely disappear. Some species with climatic ranges limited... | |
| David E. Lorey - 2003 - 342 pages
...the impact of climate change on a number of selected ecological systems. Forests: Models project that as a consequence of possible changes in temperature...change is expected to occur at a rapid rate relative to the speed at which forest species grow, reproduce and re-establish themselves. Therefore, the species... | |
| Donald A. Brown - 2002 - 294 pages
...moderately affected by global warming may never be the same. Modifications of forest. The IPCC stated that a substantial fraction (a global average of one-third,...changes occurring in high latitudes and the least in the tropics.16 Climate change is expected to occur at a rapid rate relative to the speed at which forest... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - 2003 - 108 pages
...consequence of possible changes in temperature and water availability under doubled carbon dioxide equilibrium conditions, a substantial fraction (a...average of one-third, varying by region from one-seventh in tropical forests to two-thirds in Boreal forests) of the existing forested area of the world will... | |
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