Vegetation and the terrestrial carbon cycle : modelling the first 400 million years /
Using knowledge of present day vegetation processes and models of global climate, the authors simulate and analyse changes in the earth's vegetation and in the capacity of the Earth's carbon cycle over the past 400 million years. Possible conditions in future centuries are also investigate...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Investigating the past from the present; 3 Climate and terrestrial vegetation; 4 Climate and terrestrial vegetation of the present; 5 The late Carboniferous; 6 The Jurassic; 7 The Cretaceous; 8 The Eocene; 9 The Quaternary; 10 Climate and terrestrial vegetation in the future; 11 The end view; References; Index.