Vegetation—Climate Interaction How Plants Make the Global Environment /

• Main Author: Adams, Jonathan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Climatology.; Economic geology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Geotechnical engineering.; Applied ecology.; Plant ecology.; Life Sciences.; Applied Ecology.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Economic Geology.

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 - microclim...

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.