Key message Adaptation of forest management to climate change requires an
understanding of the effects of climate on forests, industries and communities; prediction of …

• Premise of the study: Near‐future climate changes are likely to elicit major vegetation
changes. Disequilibrium dynamics, which occur when vegetation comes out of equilibrium …

Unprecedented modern rates of warming are expected to advance boreal forest into Arctic
tundra, thereby reducing albedo,–, altering carbon cycling and further changing climate …

Christian Körner has been at the forefront of research investigating treelines, and in the late
1990s and early 2000s he proposed a unifying theory to explain the global occurrence of …

A daptation refers to adjustments in ecological, social, or economic systems in response to
actual or expected climatic stimuli and their effects or impacts. It refers to changes in …

Adaptation to climate variability and change is important both for impact assessment (to
estimate adaptations which are likely to occur) and for policy development (to advise on or …

This text, written by a leading researcher in the field, describes the origin and formation of
lakes in order to give context to the question of how lacustrine deposits form. It explains the …

In coming decades, global climate changes are expected to produce large shifts in
vegetation distributions at unprecedented rates. These shifts are expected to be most rapid …

Now in its second edition, Pollution of Lakes and Rivers provides essential insights into
present-day water quality problems from an international perspective. Explains simply and …

This paper outlines what is meant by" adaptation" to climate change, and how it might be
addressed in the IPCC Assessments. Two roles of adaptation in the climate change field are …