Sammelband
Herausgeberliste: Huber-Sannwald, Elisabeth; Wolters, Volkmar
Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 1998
Serientitel: Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Report
Serienzählung: 15
A global decline in biodiversity and ecological complexity is often considered an aspect of global environmental change. Ecological complexity comprises all scales from genotypes, species, functional types, landscapes, and the interactions within and between these levels of organization, as well as the diversity of interactions of trophic pathways both above and belowground. The effects of global change on ecosystem functioning have been investigated in depth during the last decade or so, however, there has been growing interest in the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning and lately also in the direct effects of global change on biological diversity in its broadest sense. Although a global decline in biodiversity is apparent, we still lack empirical and theoretical evidence as to how the individual global change drivers affect different components of communities differently. This aspect is crucial, however, for implications and predictions of sustainable ecosystem functioning. For example, to which degree do individual global change drivers affect dominant, subordinate, keystone, and rare species of systems both above- and belowground? How do changes in climate, atmospheric composition, and land use affect systems differently as individual and interacting driving forces? To help answer these questions, EU-TERI-CA, the German IGBP, the University of Giessen, DIVERSITAS and IGBP/GCTE jointly sponsored a workshop on "Effects of Global Change on Biodiversity and Ecological Complexity". This workshop brought together 39 scientists from around the world, among them 22 scientists linked to the TERI project of the EU. It was one of the first international workshops devoted to discussions of the effects of changes in atmospheric composition, climate, and land use on the biological diversity and ecological complexity of ecosystems worldwide. This workshop was conceived as the launching of a core Activity of IGBP-GCTE/Focus 4 on Global Change and Ecological Complexity. The GCTE-Focus 4 science plan was used as a platform and was linked with EU/TERI projects, such as BIODEPTH, CLUE, ECOMONT, DEGREE and GLOBIS. The general objective of the workshop was to identify gaps in our understanding of the effects of global change on biodiversity and ecological complexity and to develop research objectives and hypotheses for empirical and theoretical approaches to tackle global change impacts on biological diversity in a variety of systems from tropical rain forests to alpine meadows. The workshop revolved around three rounds of presentations on (i) the objectives of the workshop and of the sponsoring organizations; (ii) the major drivers of global change and the impacts of individual drivers on diversity at different levels of organization, and (iii) ongoing EU-TERI funded and other international projects. Three working groups then focused on the effects of global change either in climate, atmospheric composition, or land use.
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Harvard-Zitierstil: Huber-Sannwald, E. and Wolters, V. (eds.) (1998) Effects of Global Change on Biodiversity and Ecological Complexity : Report of EU/TERI-IGBP/GCTE-Diversitas Workshop : Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Giessen, Germany, October 20-22, 1997. Canberra Australia: GCTE International Project Office. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258210063_Effects_of_Global_Change_on_Biodiversity_and_Ecological_Complexity_GCTE_Report_No_15
APA-Zitierstil: Huber-Sannwald, E., & Wolters, V. (Eds.) (1998). Effects of Global Change on Biodiversity and Ecological Complexity : Report of EU/TERI-IGBP/GCTE-Diversitas Workshop : Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Giessen, Germany, October 20-22, 1997. GCTE International Project Office. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258210063_Effects_of_Global_Change_on_Biodiversity_and_Ecological_Complexity_GCTE_Report_No_15
