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Tropical rainforests and agroforests under global change: ecological and soci…
Tropical rainforests are disappearing due to agricultural intensification and climate change, causing irreversible losses in biodiversity and associated ecosystem functioning. Ecosystem properties and human well-being are profoundly influenced by environmental change, which is often not considered during land use intensification. Understanding these processes needs an integrated scientific appr…
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- 9783642004933
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- xv, 531 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;
- Series Title
- Environmental science and engineering (Springer (Firm))
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- [TLK-LIB-185]
Climate change and food security: adapting agriculture to a warmer world
Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the context of a rapidly changing climate, in which warming temperatures and changing rainfall regimes could threaten the basic productivity of the agricultural systems on which most of the world’s poor directly depen…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048129539
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- vi, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- Advances in global change research ; 37
- Call Number
- [POL-LIB-548]
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