Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems
Edited by B.H. Walker and W.L. Steffen (1996). IGBP Book Series No.2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Part one: Introduction

1. GCTE science: objectives, structure and implementation
   B.H. Walker and W.L. Steffen

Part two: Ecosystem physiology

2. Ecosytem physiology: overview and synthesis
   H.A. Mooney
3. The response of complex multispecies systems to elevated CO₂
   Ch. Körner
4. Elevated CO₂ and terrestrial vegetation: implications for and beyond the global carbon budget
   F.A. Bazzaz, S.L. Bassow, G.M. Berntson and S.C. Thomas
5. The role of vegetation in controlling carbon dioxide and water exchange between land surface and the atmosphere
   E.-D. Schulze, F.M. Kelliher, Ch. Körner, J. Lloyd, D.Y. Hollinger and N.N. Vygodskaya
6. Integrated models of ecosystem function: a grassland case study
   M.B. Coughenour and W.J. Parton

Part three: Ecosystem structure

7. The importance of structure in understanding global change
   H.H. Shugart
8. The application of patch models in global change research
   T.M. Smith, H.H. Shugart and W.H. Romme
9. Climate change, disturbances and landscape dynamics
   R.H. Gardner, W.W. Hargrove, M.G. Turner and W.H. Romme
10. Linking the human dimension to landscape dynamics
    I.R. Noble
11. Landscape diversity and vegetation response to long-term cliamte change in the eastern Olympic Peninsula, Pacific Northwest USA
    L.B. Brubaker and J.S. McLachlan

Part four: Agriculture, forestry and soils

12. The work of Focus 3
    P.B. Tinker and J.S.I. Ingram
13. Agriculture and global change: scaling direct carbon dioxide impacts and feedbacks through time
    R.M. Gifford, D.J. Barrett, J.L. Lutze and A.B. Samarakoon
14. Predicting crop yields under global change
    J. Goudriaan
15. Global change impacts on managed forests
    S. Linder, R.E. McMurtrie and J.J. Landsberg
16. Linked pest-crop models under global change
    P.S. Teng, K.L. Heong, M.J. Kropff, F.W. Nutter and R.W. Sutherst
17. Soil erosion under global change
    C. Valentin

Part five: Ecological complexity

18. Global change and ecological complexity
    O.E. Sala
19. Self-organization in ecosystems: lumpy geometries, periodicities and morphologies
    C.S. Holling, G. Peterson, P. Marples, J. Sendzimir, K. Redford, L. Gunderson and D. Lambert
20. Diversity of soil biota and ecosystem function
    O.W. Heal, S. Struwe and A. Kjoller
21. The functional role of species in terrestrial ecosystems
    F. S. Chapin III, H.L. Reynolds, C.M. D'Antonio and V.M. Eckhart

Part six: GCTE and Earth system science

22. Carbon and nitrogen interactions in the terrestrial biosphere: anthropogenic effects
    J.M. Melillo
23. Global dynamic vegetation modelling: coupling biogeochemistry and biogeography models
    R.P. Neilson and S.W. Running
24. Global and regional land use responses to climate change
    M.L. Parry, J.E. Hossell, R. Bunce, P.J. Jones, T. Rehman, R.b. Tranter, J.s. marsh, C. Rosenzweig and G. Fischer
25. Incorporating land-use change in Earth system models illustrated by IMAGE 2
    R. Leemans
26. Developing the potential for describing the terrestrial biopshere's response to a changin climate
    F.I. Woodward
27. Data requirements for global terrestrial ecosystem modelling
    W. Cramer and A. Fischer
28. Satellite data for monitoring, understanding and modelling of ecosystem functioning
    A. Fischer, S. Louahala, P. Maisongrande, L. Kergoat and G. Dedieu

Part seven: Conclusion

29. Predicting a future terrestrial biosphere: challenges to GCTE science
    B.H. Walker