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Includes bibliographical references, appendix and index.

Avian response to climate change in British Columbia, Canada-toward a general model / Fred L. Bunnell, Michael I. Preston, Anthea C.M. Farr -- Population trends of Montane birds in Southwestern Puerto Rico : eight years after the passage of Hurricane Georges / Adrianne G. Tossas -- Regional bird monitoring as a tool for predicting the effects of land use and climate change on Pampas biodiversity / Maria Elena Zaccagnini, Sonia Canavelli, Noelia Calamari, Anne M. Schrag -- Impacts of climate extremes on biodiversity in the Americas / Marianne B. Karsh, Don MacIver -- Phenological changes of Mammillaria mathildae associated to climate change in a deciduous tropical forest / Oscar Garcia-Rubio, Guadalupe Malda-Barrera -- Tropical tree plantations with native species : linking carbon storage with concerns for biodiversity / Malena Sarlo, Chrystal Healy, Catherine Potvin -- Biomass and carbon accumulation in secondary forests and forest plantations used as restoration tools in the Caribbean Region of Costa Rica / William Fonseca, Federico E. Alice, Johan Montero, Henry Toruño, Humberto Leblanc -- Climate change and snow depth impacts on vegetation at the Great Basin Desert-Sierra Nevada Ecotone / Michael E. Loik, Holly Alpart, Alden B. Griffith.