Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response in Long-Term Ecological Research Sites: (The ^ALong-Term Ecological Research Network Series)

This volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series would present the work that has been done and the understanding and database that have been developed by work on climate change done at all the LTER sites. Global climate change is a central issue facing the world, which is being worked on by a very large number of scientists across a wide range of fields. The LTER sites hold some of the best available data measuring long term impacts and changes in the environment, and the research done at these sites has not previously been made widely available to the broader climate change research community. This book pulls together information from all 20 research sites.

Table of Contents:
Preface Part I 1: An Introduction to Climate Variability Part II Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response on Different Time-Scales Short Term Climatic Events Short-Term Climatic Events: Introductory Overview 2: Hurricanes Impacts on Temperate and Tropical Forests 3: Drought Impacts on Tree Growth and Mortality of Southern Appalachian Forests 4: Climate Variability in the North Central Region: Characterizing Drought Severity Patterns 5: Climate Forcing at the Arctic LTER Site Short-Term Climatic Events-Synthesis The Quasi-Quintennial Time Scale Introductory Overview 6: An LTER Network Overview and Introduction of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climatic signal and response 7: The Climate of the Central Arizona and Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CALPTER) Site and links to ENSO 8: Watershed Hydrological and Chemical Responses to Precipitation Variability in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico 9: Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response of the Marine Ecosystem in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) Region 10: Climate and Hydrologic Variations and Implications for Lake and Stream Ecological Response in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica Synthesis: The Quasi-Quintennial Time Scale Climate Variability and Ecological Response The Inter-Decadal Time Scale Introductory Overview 11: Interdecadal Scale Variability: An Assessment of LTER Climate Data 12: A 200-Year Perspective of Climate Variability and the Response of White Spruce in Interior Alaska 13: Decadal Climate Variation and Coho Salmon Catch 14: Decadal and Century-long Changes in Storminess at LTER Sites 15: Mulit-Decadal Drought Cycles in South-central New Mexico: Patterns and Consequences Decadal-Scale Climate Variability and ecosystem response at LTER Sites Century to Millennial Scale The Century to Millennial Scale Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at LTER Sites 16: Century to Millennial Scale Climate Change and Ecosystem Response in Taylor Valley, Antarctica 17: Millennial-scale Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at the Jornada LTER 18: Millennial and Century Climate Changes in the Colorado Alpine Part III Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at selected LTER Sites Over Multiple Time Scales Cross Time-Scale Climatic Events and Ecosystem Responses 19: Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at the H.J. Andrews Long-Term Ecological Research Site 20: Climate Variability in Tallgrass Prairie at Multiple Time Scales: Konza Prairie Biological Station Part IV 21: Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response-An Overview

Review :
"This timely and well-done work will be a milestone in LTER research. It generates a sense of anticipation for the progress in understanding the interactions between climate and ecosystem response the LTER program will make during its next 20 years."--American Meteorological Society