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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Adams, Jonathan (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edition:2nd ed. 2010.
Series:Environmental Sciences,
Subjects:
Applied ecology.
Atmospheric science.
Plant ecology.
Geotechnical engineering.
Climatology.
Geology.
Applied Ecology.
Atmospheric Science.
Plant Ecology.
Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences.
Climate Sciences.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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