Vegetation-Climate Interaction How Plants Make the Global Environment /

Jonathan Adams provides a readable, 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 book builds up from the local scale - micr...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Adams, Jonathan (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Édition:2nd ed. 2010.
Collection:Environmental Sciences,
Sujets:
Applied ecology.
Atmospheric science.
Plant ecology.
Geotechnical engineering.
Climatology.
Geology.
Applied Ecology.
Atmospheric Science.
Plant Ecology.
Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences.
Climate Sciences.
Accès en ligne:Texto Completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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