Archives of the
Global Climate Change Digest
A Guide to Information on Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depletion
Published July 1988 through June 1999

"A Modelling Analysis of the Effects of Climatic Warming on the Probability of Spring Frost Damage to Tree Species in the Netherlands and Germany," K. Kramer (DLO Inst. For. & Nat. Res., POB 23, 6700 AA Wageningen, Neth.), Plant, Cell & Environ., 17(4), 367-377, Apr. 1994.

Concludes that the probability will decrease, and explains contradictory results found in two previous studies.

"Postfire Vegetation Recovery and Tree Establishment at the Arctic Treeline: Climate-Change--Vegetation-Response Hypotheses," S.M. Landhäusser (Dept. For. Sci., Univ. Alberta, Edmonton AB T6G 2H1, Can.), R.W. Wein, J. Ecol., 81(4), 665-672, Dec. 1993.

Field comparisons of burned and unburned sites suggest that, under global warming, deciduous tree species with long-distance seed dispersal mechanisms will increase in abundance and will invade the tundra in a stepwise fashion after each fire.

SPECIALIZED PAPERS

"Hydraulic Reversals and Episodic Methane Emissions During Drought Cycles in Mires," E.A. Romanowicz (Heroy Geol. Lab., Syracuse Univ., Syracuse NY 13244), D.I. Siegel, P.H. Glaser, Geology, 21(3), 231-234, Mar. 1993. Used the drought of 1990 as an analog to predict changes in CH4 emissions to the atmosphere from boreal peatlands under global warming conditions.

"Model Simulations of Dissolved Oxygen Characteristics of Minnesota Lakes: Past and Future," H.G. Stefan (Dept. Civil Eng., Univ. Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55414), X. Fang, Environ. Mgmt., 18(1), 73-92, Jan.-Feb. 1994. Includes a doubled-CO2 scenario.

"Recent Centuries of Vegetational Change in the Glaciated North-Eastern United States," E.W.B. Russell (Dept. Geol. Sci., Rutgers Univ., Newark NJ 07102), R.B. Davis et al., J. Ecol., 81(4), 647-664, Dec. 1993.

"Fire History and Climate Change in Giant Sequoia Groves," T.W. Swetnam (Lab. Tree-Ring Res., Univ. Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721), Science, 262(5135), 885-889, Nov. 5, 1993.

"Effects of Climate Change on Decomposition in Arctic Tussock Tundra: A Modeling Synthesis," D.L. Moorhead (Dept. Biol. Sci., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock TX 79409), J.F. Reynolds, Arctic & Alpine Res., 25(4), 403-412, Nov. 1993.

"Soil Warming and Trace Gas Fluxes: Experimental Design and Preliminary Flux Results," W.T. Peterjohn (Ecosys. Ctr., Marine Biol. Lab., Woods Hole MA 02543), J.M. Melillo et al., Oecologia, 93(1), 18-24, 1993.