Vegetation and the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: The First 400 Million Years - Couverture rigide

Beerling, David; Woodward, F. Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521801966 ISBN 13 : 9780521801966

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Plants have colonised and modified the World's surface for the last 400 million years. In this book the authors demonstrate that an understanding of the role of vegetation in the terrestrial carbon cycle during this time can be gained by linking the key mechanistic elements of present day vegetation processes to models of the global climate during different geological eras. The resulting interactive simulations of climate and vegetation processes tie in with observable geological data, such as the distributions of coals and evaporites, supporting the validity of the authors' approach. Simulation of possible conditions in future centuries are also presented, providing valuable predictions of the status of the Earth's vegetation and carbon cycle at a time of global warming.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Beerling is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Honorary Reader in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He is holder of a 2001 Philip Leverhulme Prize for his work in the earth sciences. Ian Woodward is Professor of Plant Ecology in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He is author of Climate and Plant Distribution (1987) and co-editor Of Plant Functional Types (1997).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521801966
• ISBN 13: 9780521801966
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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