scholarly journals Longitudinal trends of future climate change and oil palm growth: empirical evidence for tropical Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (17) ◽  
pp. 21193-21203
Author(s):  
R. Russell M. Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Tropical Africa

scholarly journals Determining the response of African biota to climate change: using the past to model the future

2013 ◽  
Vol 368 (1625) ◽  
pp. 20120491 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. J. Willis ◽  
K. D. Bennett ◽  
S. L. Burrough ◽  
M. Macias-Fauria ◽  
C. Tovar
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
The Past ◽  
Community Turnover ◽  
Climate Change Information ◽  
Vegetation Models ◽  
Huge Variation

Prediction of biotic responses to future climate change in tropical Africa tends to be based on two modelling approaches: bioclimatic species envelope models and dynamic vegetation models. Another complementary but underused approach is to examine biotic responses to similar climatic changes in the past as evidenced in fossil and historical records. This paper reviews these records and highlights the information that they provide in terms of understanding the local- and regional-scale responses of African vegetation to future climate change. A key point that emerges is that a move to warmer and wetter conditions in the past resulted in a large increase in biomass and a range distribution of woody plants up to 400–500 km north of its present location, the so-called greening of the Sahara. By contrast, a transition to warmer and drier conditions resulted in a reduction in woody vegetation in many regions and an increase in grass/savanna-dominated landscapes. The rapid rate of climate warming coming into the current interglacial resulted in a dramatic increase in community turnover, but there is little evidence for widespread extinctions. However, huge variation in biotic response in both space and time is apparent with, in some cases, totally different responses to the same climatic driver. This highlights the importance of local features such as soils, topography and also internal biotic factors in determining responses and resilience of the African biota to climate change, information that is difficult to obtain from modelling but is abundant in palaeoecological records.

Responses of Irish Vegetation to Future Climate Change

2006 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Jones ◽  
Alison Donnelly ◽  
Fabrizio Albanito
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change

Future climate change and its impacts over small island states

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 179-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Lal ◽  
H Harasawa ◽  
K Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Island States ◽  
Small Island States

Supplemental Material to the A&WMA 2008 Critical Review "Prospects for Future Climate Change and the Reasons for Early Action"

2008 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Edgerton ◽  
Michael MacCracken ◽  
Meng-Dawn Cheng ◽  
Edwin Corporan ◽  
Matthew DeWitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Early Action
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