Vegetation-Climate Interaction [electronic resource] : How Plants Make the Global Environment / by Jonathan Adams.

Author
Adams, Jonathan [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
2nd ed. 2010.
Published/​Created
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Description
1 online resource (285 p.)

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Subject(s)
Series
Environmental Sciences [More in this series]
Subseries of
Springer Praxis Books
Summary note
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 - 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 is also 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 are explored in the context of environmental change both 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 are also considered. Since the first edition of this book was published, many new papers in this rapidly advancing field have been published. This new, updated Second Edition incorporates information from these and also significant works not included in the first edition. New diagrams and photographs are also included.
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Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
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.
ISBN
  • 1-282-50897-0
  • 9786612508974
  • 3-642-00881-X
OCLC
505431682
Doi
  • 10.1007/978-3-642-00881-8
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