Climate warming in western North America : evidence and environmental effects / edited by Frederic H. Wagner

Published:: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2009]
Copyright Date:: ©2009
Physical Description:: xiv, 167 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
Additional Creators:: Wagner, Frederic H.

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EVIDENCE AND PROJECTIONS OF CLIMATE WARMING: Climate change projected for the Twenty-First Century and Measured for the Twentieth in the Rocky Mountain/Great Basin Region / Frederic H. Wagner -- Surface warming inferred from borehole temperatures: results from Utah and comparisons with the Northern Hemisphere / David S. Chapman, Robert N. Harris, and Marshall Bartlett -- Ice-core and flood-flow evidence of rapid climate change, Fitzpatrick Wilderness, Wind River Range, Wyoming / David L. Nafiz et al. -- ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS: TWENTIETH-CENTURY OBSERVATIONS AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PROJECTIONS: Variability and trends in mountain snowpacks in Western North America / Philip W. Mote -- Variability and trends in spring runoff in the Western United States / Jessica D. Lundquist et al. -- Climate variability, climate change, and wine production in the Western United States / Michael A. White, Gregory V. Jones, and Noah S. Diffenbaugh -- Credibility and confidence: assessing climate-change impacts on biological systems in North America / John H. Matthews and Camille Parmesan -- Ecological consequences of forest insect disturbance altered by climate change / Jesse A. Logan and James A. Powell -- A synthesis of recent climate warming effects on terrestrial ecosystems of Alaska / Valerie A. Barber et al.

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9780874809060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0874809061 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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