Boreal Forest and Climate Change

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hari, Pertti (Editor), Kulmala, Liisa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research ; 34
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Climate change.; Ecology.; Ecosystems.; Plant physiology.; Environmental sciences.; Life Sciences.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Environmental Physics.; Plant Physiology.; Climate Change.

An active co-operation between forest ecologists and physicists has continued for decades at the University of Helsinki. These scientists have the common vision that material and energy fluxes are the key to a proper understanding of natural phenomena. The authors of this book come from very differe...

Table of Contents:

• Methodologies
• Environmental Factors
• Transport
• Structure
• Processes
• From Processes and Transport to Trees, Ecosystems and Atmosphere
• Connections Between Processes, Transport and Structure
• MicroForest
• Interactions Between Boreal Forests and Climate Change
• Concluding Remarks.