Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes: The Spatial and Evolutionary Responses of Terrestrial Biota

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Past environmental changes: Characteristic features of Quaternary climate variations....Pages 11-29
Modelling late-Quaternary palaeoclimates and palaeobiomes....Pages 31-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Spatial response of plant taxa to climate change: A palaeoecological perspective....Pages 55-72
The response of New Zealand forest diversity to Quaternary climates....Pages 73-80
Character of rapid vegetation and climate change during the late-glacial in southernmost South America....Pages 81-90
Holocene tree migration rates objectively determined from fossil pollen data....Pages 91-101
Flora and vegetation of the Quaternary temperate stages of NW Europe:Evidence for large-scale range changes....Pages 103-117
The response of beetles to Quaternary climate changes....Pages 119-127
Fossil Coleoptera assemblages in the Great Lakes region of North America: Past changes and future prospects....Pages 129-142
The response of Coleoptera to late-Quaternary climate changes:Evidence from north-east France....Pages 143-151
The spatial response of mammals to Quaternary climate changes....Pages 153-162
The spatial response of non-marine Mollusca to past climate changes....Pages 163-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Reinterpreting the fossil pollen record of Holocene tree migration....Pages 181-193
Mechanisms of vegetation response to climate change....Pages 195-204
Plant invasions:Early and continuing expressions of global change....Pages 205-216
Invading into an ecologically non-uniform area....Pages 217-225
Migratory birds and climate change....Pages 227-238
Tree demography and migration:What stand level measurements can tell about the response of forests to climate change....Pages 239-254
Structural changes in the forest-tundra ecotone:A dynamic process....Pages 255-263
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Modelling the structural response of vegetation to climate change....Pages 265-272
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Species’ habitats in relation to climate, evolution, migration and conservation....Pages 275-286
The evolutionary response of vertebrates to Quaternary environmental change....Pages 287-302
The weight of internal and external constraints on Pupilla muscorum L. (Gastropoda:Stylommatophora) during the Quaternary in Europe....Pages 303-318
Late-Quaternary extinction of large mammals in northern Eurasia:A new look at the Siberian contribution....Pages 319-339
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
Variation in plant populations:History and chance or ecology and selection?....Pages 343-355
Genetics and adaptation to climate change:A case study of trees....Pages 357-370
Climate change and the reproductive biology of higher plants....Pages 371-380
Space and time as axes in intraspecific phylogeography....Pages 381-388
Migratory birds: Simulating adaptation to environmental change....Pages 389-400
Terrestrial invertebrates and climate change: Physiological and life-cycle adaptations....Pages 401-412
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Forecast changes in the global environment:What they mean in terms of ecosystem responses on different time-scales....Pages 415-426
The biogeographic consequences of forecast changes in the global environment: Individual species’ potential range changes....Pages 427-440
Gap models, forest dynamics and the response of vegetation to climate change....Pages 441-453
Natural migration rates of trees: Global terrestrial carbon cycle implications....Pages 455-468
Seasonal features of global net primary productivity models for the terrestrial biosphere....Pages 469-483
Front Matter....Pages 485-485
Predicting the response of terrestrial biota to future environmental changes....Pages 487-504
Back Matter....Pages 505-523