Eco-Resilience Biology

An Exploration of Climate-Forest Connection

Amit Kumar, Rajesh Kaushal

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040452349
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biotechnology
• Index: Biological Sciences

The book Eco-Resilience Biology: An Exploration of Climate-Forest Connection offers comprehensive information on the dynamic interactions between forest ecosystems and changing climate regimes. As climate change accelerates, understanding the resilience mechanisms within forest biomes becomes critical for ensuring biodiversity, ecosystem services, and sustainable human livelihoods. This book aims to bridge the knowledge gap by exploring eco-resilience from biological, ecological, and climate perspectives, providing an integrated framework for students, researchers, and policymakers.

With an emphasis on interdisciplinary insights, this volume delves into how forest species adapt and respond to climatic stressors through physiological plasticity, functional trait shifts, and ecological feedback loops. It investigates both natural resilience and the potential for enhancing adaptive capacity through human interventions like forest management, conservation planning, and restoration ecology. Unlike existing works, this book uniquely blends empirical case studies, theoretical models, and cutting-edge scientific findings to present a holistic view of forest resilience.

Key Features:
• Explores plant functional traits and species adaptation mechanisms under climate stress.
• Addresses forest-climate feedback, carbon sequestration, and ecosystem stability.
• Integrates traditional ecological knowledge with modern scientific approaches.
• Discusses resilience assessment tools and strategies for forest policy and planning.
• Case studies from diverse forest ecosystems, including tropical, temperate, and boreal zones.

Eco-Resilience Biology is ideal for a wide range of readers, including environmental scientists, forest ecologists, conservation biologists, climate researchers, and students of ecological and environmental sciences. It is also suitable as a textbook for graduate, postgraduate, and Ph.D. students in fields such as agriculture, botany, plant physiology, forestry, biotechnology, environmental science, and agroforestry.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Editors
• List of Contributors
• Chapter 1 Introduction to Resilience of Forest Ecosystems and Its Role in Climate Change
• Chapter 2 Exploring the Dynamics of Forests in Climate Change: Insights and Impacts
• Chapter 3 Interplay of Biotic and Abiotic Components for Forest Functioning and Productivity
• Chapter 4 Forest Community Structure and Species Migration in the Changing Climatic Conditions
• Chapter 5 Significance of Forest Biodiversity in Fostering Eco-resilience
• Chapter 6 Significance of Plant Functional Traits for Ecosystem Regulation and Climate Change Mitigation
• Chapter 7 Carbon Mitigation Potential and Carbon Sequestration in Forest Ecosystem
• Chapter 8 Forestry and Agroforestry Interventions for Climate Change Mitigation
• Chapter 9 Significance of Functional Traits in Nutrient Cycling and Soil Interaction
• Chapter 10 Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change through Agroforestry
• Chapter 11 Forest Adaptation Potential to Maintain the Flow of Ecosystem Services
• Chapter 12 Forests and Climate: Synergies for Sustainable Development
• Chapter 13 Challenges of the Forestry Sector in Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change
• Chapter 14 Exploring the Prospects of Climate-Forest Nexus for Sustainable Landscapes
• Chapter 15 Synergistic Impacts of Climate and Land Use Land Cover (LULC) Changes on the Hydrology of Forested Landscapes
• Index