A Threat to life : the impact of climate change on Japan's biodiversity / compiled and edited by Akiko Domoto ... [et al.] ; with the assistance of Cindy Termorshuizen ... [et al.] ; foreword by Jeffrey McNeely
Imprint
Tokyo : Tsukiji-Shokan, 2000
Descript
vi, 162 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm
CONTENT
Biospheric Approach: Global Climate Change and Biodiversity -- Climate Change from the Past to the Future: Greenhouse Gas Emission Scenarios ; Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle ; Influence of Decreased Snowfall due to Warming Climate Trends on the Water Quality of Lake Biwa ; Glacial Phenomena in the Nepalese Himalayas -- Impact of Global Warming on Flora and Fauna: Alpine Plants ; Aquatic Plants at Risk -- Seagrasses -- Insects -- Marine -- Blessings of Floating Ice -- Coral Reefs -- Fish -- Sea Turtles -- Birds -- Human Infectious Diseases -- Dynamics of Biodiversity