Vegetation-Climate Interaction

How Plants Make the Global Environment

AvJonathan Adams

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

This book offers a readable and accessible account of the way in which the world's plant life partly controls its own environment. Starting from the broad patterns in vegetation which have classically been seen as a passive response to climate, the authors build up from the local scale - with microclimates produced by plants - to the regional and global scale. The influence of plants (both on land and in the ocean) in making clouds, haze and rain are considered, along with plant effects on the composition of greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere. Broad global feedbacks that either stabilize or destabilize the earth's environment will be explored, in the context of environmental change in the recent geological past, and in the near future. Common contentions and misconceptions about the role of vegetation or forest removal in the spread of deserts will also be considered.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-03-14
Mått:170 x 242 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Springer Praxis Books
Antal sidor:266
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN:9783642269059

Utforska kategorier

Växtböcker inom Djur och Natur
Geovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Botanik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Jonathan Adams has a very diverse background in the environmental sciences, including biogeography, classical ecology, Quaternary geology and earth system science. He has published in international journals on all of these topics and collaborated with some of the best known scientists in these fields. He has also organized meetings and edited special issues of journals on earth system science. Thus, he has the inter-disciplinary knowledge necessary to tackle a subject as far-reaching and many-faceted as vegetation-climate interactions, on a range of spatial scales and time scales.

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From the reviews: "Vegetation-Climate Interaction is a wonderfully simple yet elegant treatise on how vegetation patterns are closely linked to the global environment. ... The book is liberally laced with useful figures and photos that contribute greatly to making the complex topics understandable. All in all, this volume is likely to become a staple for both the vegetation and climate change communities, and for meteorologically oriented scientists. It would be a perfect primer for qualifier exams in these fields. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels." (D. F. Karnosky, CHOICE, Vol. v4 (3), November, 2007)

Innehållsförteckning

The climate system.- From climate to vegetation.- Plants on the move.- Microclimates and vegetation.- The desert makes the desert: Climate feedbacks from the vegetation of arid zones.- Forests.- Plants and the carbon cycle.- The direct carbon dioxide effect on plants.

Jonathan Adams

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