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Adams, Jonathan; Zeng, Ning

 
9783540324911: Vegetation-Climate Interaction: How Vegetation Makes the Global Environment
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ISBN 10 : 3540324917 ISBN 13 : 9783540324911
Editeur : Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 2007

Synopsis

This book offers a readable and 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 authors build up from the local scale - with 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 are 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 will be explored, in the context of environmental change 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 will also be considered.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan Adams has a very diverse background in the environmental sciences, including biogeography, classical ecology, Quaternary geology and earth system science. He has published in international journals on all of these topics and collaborated with some of the best known scientists in these fields. He has also organized meetings and edited special issues of journals on earth system science. Thus, he has the inter-disciplinary knowledge necessary to tackle a subject as far-reaching and many-faceted as vegetation-climate interactions, on a range of spatial scales and time scales.

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Éditeur
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3540324917
ISBN 13 
9783540324911
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
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