Goals of Global Change Ecology ■ Impacts:Impacts of climate change on Ecosystem responses Feedback:Ecosystem feedback to climate change Mechanisms:Basic understanding of ecological mechanisms Predictions:Improvement of models for forecasting future states of ecosystems and climateGoals of Global Change Ecology Goals of Global Change Ecology „ Impacts Impacts: Impacts of climate change on : Impacts of climate change on Ecosystem responses Ecosystem responses „ Feedback Feedback: Ecosystem feedback to climate : Ecosystem feedback to climate change „ Mechanisms Mechanisms: Basic understanding of : Basic understanding of ecological mechanisms ecological mechanisms „ Predictions Predictions: Improvement of models for : Improvement of models for forecasting future states of ecosystems and forecasting future states of ecosystems and climate climate