Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change

Yadvinder Malhi and Oliver Phillips have been at the forefront of global change research in the Tropics for decades and are eminently qualified to produce an overview of the current state of reasearch. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Malhi and Phillips have produced a timely summary that will hopefully inspire the next phase of research into tropical forest response to atmospheric change. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. This book is an important first step in this direction, where climate change and human activities are impinging upon tropical forests with serious consequences for biological diversity, the hydrological cycle, carbon storage, the nitrogen cycle, fire frequency and atmospheric composition. Researchers in tropical ecology, tropical forestry, climate research and conservation biology will find this book valuable in an extremely important area of research spanning several disciplines over the next years and beyond. * Compton Tucker, Environmental Conservation 33(4): 364-369 * ...a tight well-edited volume written by leading researchers. Peter Thomas, Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2006, 37:2 The editors are to be commended for inviting authors whose approaches and conclusions differ, the result is a series of stimulating chapters. BioScience, April 2006