Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics. (Record no. 1547)

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International Standard Book Number 9781118336175
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Classification number QC884.5.T73 Q38 2012
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Classification number 551.6913
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Personal name Metcalfe, Sarah E.
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Title Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics.
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Edition statement 1st ed.
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Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2012.
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Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice �2011.
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Extent 1 online resource (599 pages)
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Series statement Blackwell Quaternary Geoscience Ser.
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Formatted contents note Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- I: Global contexts -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Why the tropics matter -- 1.2 Development of ideas -- 1.3 Establishment of the tropical climate system -- 1.4 Drivers of tropical environmental change -- 1.5 The tropics as drivers of change -- 1.6 Extra-tropical forcing -- 1.7 Organisation of the volume -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 2 Contemporary climate and circulation of the tropics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Diurnal and local processes -- 2.3 Planetary context -- 2.4 Regional circulation systems -- 2.5 Climatic variability -- 2.6 Concluding remarks -- II: Regional environmental change -- CHAPTER 3 Tropical oceans -- 3.1 Tropical oceans in the global climate system -- 3.2 Reconstructing past ocean conditions -- 3.3 Tropical oceans throughout the Quaternary -- 3.4 The past 20 000 years -- 3.5 Outlook -- CHAPTER 4 Africa -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Potential climate forcing factors -- 4.3 Mediterranean North Africa -- 4.4 The Sahara and the Sahel -- 4.5 Equatorial Africa -- 4.6 Southern Africa -- 4.7 Synthesis -- 4.8 Directions for future research -- CHAPTER 5 India, Arabia and adjacent regions -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Quaternary of India and Tibet -- 5.3 Quaternary of the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal -- 5.4 Quaternary of Arabia and the Middle East -- 5.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 6 China and Southeast Asia -- 6.1 The South and Southeast Asian region as a component of the Earth system -- 6.2 Setting the stage for the Quaternary: environmental context and controls -- 6.3 Regional syntheses -- 6.4 The Asian tropics during the Quaternary: driver of planetary change? -- CHAPTER 7 Australia and the southwest Pacific -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Northeastern Australia -- 7.3 Northern Australia -- 7.4 Northwestern Australia.
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Formatted contents note 7.5 Western Australia -- 7.6 Central Australia -- 7.7 Southwest Pacific Islands -- 7.8 General discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 8 Latin America and the Caribbean -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Precursor to the Quaternary -- 8.3 Climate mechanisms -- 8.4 Long term climate forcings and cycles -- 8.5 Records of climate change -- 8.6 Other climate forcings -- 8.7 El Ni�no records -- 8.8 Climate and societies -- 8.9 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- III: Global syntheses -- CHAPTER 9 Modelling of tropical environments during the Quaternary -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Tropical climate in the Holocene: response to orbital forcing -- 9.3 Tropical climate at the LGM: the roles of GHGs and ice sheet forcing -- 9.4 Tropical climate variability -- 9.5 Summary and further discussion -- CHAPTER 10 Historical environmental change in the tropics -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Climate change and society in the tropics in the last 1000 years -- 10.3 Exploring anthropogenic impacts in the tropics -- 10.4 Recent and future environmental changes in the 'vulnerable' tropics -- CHAPTER 11 Past environmental changes, future environmental challenges -- 11.1 Patterns of tropical environmental change -- 11.2 Forcings -- 11.3 Future change in the tropics -- 11.4 The tropics as drivers of change -- 11.5 Conclusions -- Index.
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Summary, etc. The global climate changes that led to the expansion and contraction of high latitude ice sheets during the Quaternary period were associated with equally dramatic changes in tropical environments. These included shifts in vegetation zones, changes in the hydrology and ecology of lakes and rivers, and fluctuations in the size of mountain glaciers and sandy deserts. Until recently it was thought that such changes were triggered by fluctuations in the distribution of polar ice cover. Now there is increasing recognition that the tropics themselves have acted as drivers of global climate change over a range of timescales. The aim of Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics is to provide a synthesis of the changes that occurred in tropical terrestrial and marine systems during the Pleistocene and Holocene, complementing data-derived reconstructions with output from state-of-the-art climate models. It is targeted at final-year undergraduate students and research specialists, but will provide an introduction to tropical Quaternary research for a variety of other readers.
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Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Paleoclimatology - Tropics.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Personal name Nash, David J.
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Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading Metcalfe, Sarah E.
Title Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2012
International Standard Book Number 9781118343258
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Uniform title Blackwell Quaternary Geoscience Ser.
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