LEADER 04739nam 22006735 450 001 9910874673603321 005 20240722155855.0 010 $a9783031319211$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031319204 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-31921-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31545397 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31545397 035 $a(CKB)33329815300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-31921-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9933329815300041 100 $a20240722d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Quaternary in the Tropics $eA Reconstruction of the Palaeoclimate /$fby Klaus Heine 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (685 pages) 225 1 $aSpringer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment,$x2510-1315 311 08$aPrint version: Heine, Klaus The Quaternary in the Tropics Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 9783031319204 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a Introduction -- The Ice Age -- The Oceans -- The Tropics -- Climate Archives -- Regional Description - The Americas -- Regional Description - Africa -- Regional Description - Asia -- Regional Description - Australia, Pacific Island Regions(Oceania), Hawai -- Human Evolution and Climate (Excursus) -- Attempt at a Synopsis (Global Syntheses) -- Literaur -- Index. 330 $aThe Ice Age (Quaternary) is a period of extreme climate fluctuations that led to the growth and melting of massive ice sheets in the high latitudes. Tropical deserts, savannas, rainforests, and mountainous regions experienced equal dramatic climatic changes of which the traces are preserved in sedimentary deposits. The knowledge of tropical climate history is of paramount importance because in the tropics and marginal tropics, natural and - more recently - human-induced processes significantly control global climate. Yet relatively few palaeoclimate records are known from these regions. This book presents the climate archives of the tropics and critically discusses their palaeoclimatic informative value. Based on decades of research the author demonstrates that a lack of geoecological knowledge leads to misinterpretations in modeling climate futures. The results presented here call for a correction of many widely held views about the role of atmospheric greenhouse gases in globalwarming over the past 150 years. The book is intended for natural scientists of all disciplines who are looking for a synopsis of the problem area "Our climate in the past, present and future in the tropics". The author Professor Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Heine has been researching prehistoric climate since the 1970s, combining glacial geology, desert research, fluvial morphology, and soil science in a multidisciplinary way. Numerous research visits, often lasting several months, have taken him to Mexico, southern Africa, the South American tropics, and Australia. In addition to teaching at the Universities of Bonn, Saarbrücken, and Regensburg, he was a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia (Canada) in 1994 and at Kyoto University (Japan) in 2005/06. He is (co-)author of 150 publications in national and international journals and (co-)editor of several scientific books. He discussed his results in national and international seminars, projects, congresses, and field trips on five continents. Like no other, he surveys the development of global change research since its beginnings and can mediate hotly contested views on climate change. 410 0$aSpringer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment,$x2510-1315 606 $aEarth sciences 606 $aGeography 606 $aPhysical geography 606 $aEnvironment 606 $aEarth and Environmental Sciences 606 $aEarth Sciences 606 $aEarth System Sciences 606 $aEnvironmental Sciences 606 $aRegional Geography 606 $aPhysical Geography 615 0$aEarth sciences. 615 0$aGeography. 615 0$aPhysical geography. 615 0$aEnvironment. 615 14$aEarth and Environmental Sciences. 615 24$aEarth Sciences. 615 24$aEarth System Sciences. 615 24$aEnvironmental Sciences. 615 24$aRegional Geography. 615 24$aPhysical Geography. 676 $a551.6913 700 $aHeine$b Klaus$f1940-$0270285 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910874673603321 996 $aThe Quaternary in the Tropics$94183227 997 $aUNINA