Vegetation-Climate Interaction How Plants Make the Global Environment
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2010, 2010
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2010 |
| Series: | Environmental Sciences
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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