3-6: Land Use Issues

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Climate Change due to Land-Use Change
  
  
• Changing the Hydrological Cycle in US Midwest
  
  
• New Species Created at Rainforest Margins
  
  

Websites

• Creeping Dead Zones
  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Land degradation and desertification. (From the CIESIN thematic guide.)
  
  
• The National Drought Mitigation Center
  
  
• Welcome to the EDC DAAC
  
  

Additional References

• Jackson, R.B., and Co-Authors, 2005: Trading water for carbon with biological carbon sequestration. Science, 310, 1944-1947.
  
  
• Whitlock, C., 2004: Forests, fires and climate. Nature, 432, 28-29.
  
  
• Pimm, S. L., G. J. Russell, J. L. Gittleman, and T. M. Brooks, 1995: The Future of Biodiversity. Science, 269, 347-350.
  
  
• Patrick, William H., Jr. 1994: From Wastelands to Wetlands. Environmental Quality, Sept-Oct., 892-896.
  
  
• Vitousek, P. M., 1994: Beyond global warming: Ecology and global change. Ecology, 75, 1861-1876.
  
  
• Glenn-Lewin, D.C. and R.K. Peet, 1992: Plant Sucession. Chapman and Hall.
  
  
• Schlesinger, W.H. 1991: Biogeochemistry: An Anlysis of Global Change. Academic Press.
  
  
• Houghton, J.T., G.J. Jenkins, J.J. Ephraums, eds, 1990: 1990 Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press.
  
  
• Dorman, J. L. and P. J. Sellers, 1989: A global climatology of albedo, roughness length and stomatal resistance for atmospheric general circulation models as represented by the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB). J. Appl. Meteor., 28, 833-855.
  
  
• Lovelock, J., 1988: The Ages of Gaia. W.W. Norton and Co., NY.
  
  
• Vitousek, P. M. et al., 1986: Human appropriation of the products of photosynthesis. BioScience, 36, 368-373.
  
  
• Lugo, A. E., M. J. Sanchez, and S. Brown, 1986: Land Use and Organic Carbon Content of Some Subtropical Soils. Plant and Soil, 96, 185-196.
  
  
• Walter, H., 1979: Vegetation of the Earth and Ecological Systems of the Geo-Biosphere. Springer-Verlag.
  
  
• Bormann, F.H. and G.E. Likens, 1979: Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem. Springer-Verlag.
  
  
• Likens, G.E., et al, 1977: Biogeochemistry of a Forested Ecosystem. Springer-Verlag.
  
  
• Myre, G. and A. Myre, 2003: Uncertainties in Radiative Forcing Due to Surface Albedo Changes Caused by Land-use Changes. J. Climate, 16, 1511-1524.
  
  
• Human-induced soil degradation, technical atlas, WFS. (Download Adobe Acrobat Reader).