6.9. Cramer

Keynote Presentations from the 4th ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 5 - 17 September 2009

Speaker: Wolfgang Cramer

Wolfgang.Cramer -at- pik-potsdam.de

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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Title of the talk: One way to value diversity - the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (pdf: 6MB)

Summary of the discussion by Kristina Raab (pdf)

Recommended background literature on this presentation:

Most essential reading

• Alcamo J, Van Vuuren D, Cramer W, Alder J, Bennett E, Carpenter S, Christensen V, Foley J, Maerker M, Masui T, Morita T, O’Neill B, Peterson G, Ringler C, Rosegrant M, Schulze K, Bouwman L, Eickhoudt B, Floerke M, Lal R, Takahashi K (2005) Changes in ecosystem services and their drivers across the scenarios. Chapter 9 in: Carpenter S, Pingali PL, Bennett EM, Zurek MB (eds.) Ecosystems and human well-being: Scenarios, Volume 2: Findings of the Scenarios Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Island Press, Washington, Covelo, London, 297-373. (pdf: 4MB)
  
• Schröter D, Cramer W, Leemans R, Prentice IC, Araújo MB, Arnell NW, Bondeau A, Bugmann H, Carter TR, Garcia CA, de la Vega-Leinert AC, Erhard M, Ewert F, Glendining M, House JI, Kankaanpää S, Klein RJT, Lavorel S, Lindner M, Metzger MJ, Meyer J, Mitchell TD, Reginster I, Rounsevell M, Sabaté S, Sitch S, Smith B, Smith J, Smith P, Sykes MT, Thonicke K, Thuiller W, Tuck G, Zaehle S, Zierl B (2005) Ecosystem service supply and vulnerability to global change in Europe. Science 310:1333-1337, doi: 10.1126/science.1115233
  

Equally important, chose for yourself!

• Alcamo J, Van Vuuren D, Ringler C, Cramer W, Masui T, Alder J, Schulze K (2005) Changes in nature’s balance sheet: Model-based estimates of future worldwide ecosystem service. Ecology and Society 10(2): 19, http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss2/art19/
  
• DeFries R, Pagiola S, Adamowicz WL, Akçakaya HR, Arcenas A, Babu S, Balk D, Confalonieri U, Cramer W, Falconí F, Fritz S, Green R, Gutiérrez-Espeleta E, Hamilton K, Kane R, Latham J, Matthews E, Ricketts T, Xiang Yue T, Ash N, Thönell J (2005) Analytical approaches for assessing ecosystem condition and human well-being. Chapter 2 in: Hassan R, Scholes R, Ash N (eds.) Ecosystems and human well-being: Current state and trends, Volume 1: Findings of the Condition and Trends Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Island Press, Washington, Covelo, London, 37-71. (pdf: 1MB)
  
• Brovkin V, Sitch S, von Bloh W, Claussen M, Bauer E, Cramer W (2004) Role of land cover changes for atmospheric CO₂ increase and climate change during the last 150 years. Global Change Biology 10:1-14, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00812.x
  
• Cramer W, Bondeau A, Schaphoff S, Lucht W, Smith, Sitch S (2004) Tropical forests and the global carbon cycle: Impacts of atmospheric CO₂, climate change and rate of deforestation. Phil Trans Roy Soc B 359:331-343, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1428
  
• Sitch S, Smith B, Prentice IC, Arneth A, Bondeau A, Cramer W, Kaplan JO, Levis S, Lucht W, Sykes MT, Thonicke K, Venevsky S (2003) Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model. Global Change Biology 9:161-185, doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00569.x
  
• Lindner M, Cramer W (2002) National and regional climate change impact assessments in the forestry sector. Forest Ecology and Management 162:1-2 (pdf: 40KB)
• Cramer W (2001) Fire ecology, Mediterranean forests and global change. Forest Ecology and Managementt 147:1-2. (pdf: 40MB)
• Cramer W, Bondeau A, Woodward FI, Prentice IC, Betts RA, Brovkin V, Cox PM, Fisher V, Foley J, Friend AD, Kucharik C, Lomas MR, Ramankutty N, Sitch S, Smith B, White A, Young-Molling C (2001) Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO₂ and climate change: Results from six dynamic global vegetation models. Global Change Biology 7(4):357-373, doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2001.00383.x, (link to the data archive from this study)
• Gitay H, Brown S, Easterling W, Jallow B, Antle J, Apps M, Beamish R, Chapin T, Cramer W, Frangi J, Laine J, Erda L, Magnuson J, Noble I, Price J, Prowse T, Root T, Schulze E-D, Sirotenko O, Sohngen B, Soussana J (2001) Ecosystems and their goods and services. Chapter 5 in: McCarthy JJ, Canziani OF, Leary NA, Dokken DJ, White KS (eds.) Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg2/index.php?idp=196, Cambridge University Press, 235-342 (Executive summary).
• Kundzewicz ZW, Parry ML, Cramer W, Holten JI, Kaczmarek Z, Martens P, Nicholls R, Öquist M, Rounsevell MDA, Szolgay J (2001) Europe. Chapter 13 in: McCarthy JJ, Canziani OF, Leary NA, Dokken DJ, White KS (eds.) Climate Change 2001: Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg2/index.htm, Cambridge University Press, 641-692 (Whole chapter 13).