Vegetation-Climate Interaction How Vegetation Makes the Global Environment /

• Main Author: Adams, Jonathan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climatology.; Economic geology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Geotechnical engineering.; Earth Sciences.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Economic Geology.; Atmospheric Sciences.

I had wanted to write something like this book for many years, but would probably never have dared to attempt it unless I had been asked to by Clive Horwood at Praxis Publishing. As it is, this has been a rewarding experience for me personally, something which has forced me to read literature that I...

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.