Detailed Subject Coverage

Climate change affecting:

• all terrestrial vegetation types, and freshwater and coastal marine habitats (all aspects including biodiversity, management, modelling, inventory, physiological aspects)
• water resources (all aspects including management, sustainability, hydrology)
• soils (all aspects including the formation, degradation, fertility, chemistry, methane emissions, biology, residue management, tillage)
• crop production (direct effects and indirect effects)
• pests and diseases affecting crops and vegetation types
• agrometeorology and climatology
• human and animal health (e.g. spread of diseases, disease vectors, changing patterns of air
• pollution, thermal stresses on livestock, etc)
• economic aspects (policy, trade, crop seasonality affecting trade) and rural development/demography (e.g. migration and land resources)
• tourism (winter sports, impact on resources e.g. water, also choice of destination)

Other anthropogenic effects on the biosphere including:

• deforestation
• pollution (including air pollution)
• habitat loss
• watershed stability
• land diversion
• loss of land due to urban development
• species losses (e.g. poaching)

Adaptation and mitigation strategies:

• energy resources from forests/plantations and crops (fuelwood and biofuels)
• creation of habitat corridors to allow migration of species affected by climate change
• adoption of cropping systems that sequester carbon
• restoration ecology of habitats damaged by man's activities
• bioremediation agroforestry and exploitation of non-wood forest products (as an economic alternative to logging)
• conservation of fauna and flora