Vegetation—Climate Interaction How Plants Make the Global Environment /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Adams, Jonathan (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Έκδοση: Second Edition.
• Σειρά: Springer Praxis Books
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.