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  title info:
    title: Vegetation—Climate Interaction
    sub title: How Plants Make the Global Environment
  name:
    name part: Adams, Jonathan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2010
    edition: Second Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVII, 266 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  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.
  note: by Jonathan Adams.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  subject:
    topic: Economic geology
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geotechnical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Applied ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant ecology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Applied Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  subject:
    topic: Economic Geology
  classification: QH541.29
  classification: 577
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9783642008818
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00881-8
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204140739.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-00881-8