Impacts of atmospheric pollution on climate change – laboratory studies

Key studies on air pollution and climate change impacts on forests: an introduction.

Global change can be viewed as the sum of all environmental pollution (Trevor, 2003). To sustain human activities, massive amounts of pollutants are discharged into the biosphere. The sum of all these activities results in warming the biosphere, weather extremes, loss of biodiversity and pollution of the water, air and soil components of the biosphere. Prior to 1940, when atmospheric concentrat...

Impacts of Climate Change on

Eliasson, P.E. 2007. Impacts of climate change on carbon and nitrogen cycles in boreal forest ecosystems. Doctor’s dissertation. ISSN: 1652-6880, ISBN: 978-91-576-7388-6 It is well known that soil carbon stocks decrease considerably in response to soil warming, but experimental data have shown that the loss of carbon declines within decades in apparent acclimation. An explanation to such findin...

Impacts of Climate Change On

Local atmospheric decoupling in complex topography alters climate change impacts

Cold air drainage and pooling occur in many mountain valleys, especially at night and during winter. Local climate regimes associated with frequent cold air pooling have substantial impacts on species phenology, distribution and diversity. However, little is known about how the degree and frequency of cold air drainage and pooling will respond to a changing climate. Evidence suggests that, beca...

Climate change impacts on forestry.

Changing temperature and precipitation pattern and increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO(2) are likely to drive significant modifications in natural and modified forests. Our review is focused on recent publications that discuss the changes in commercial forestry, excluding the ecosystem functions of forests and nontimber forest products. We concentrate on potential direct and indirect im...