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Title

Vegetation-climate interaction : how vegetation makes the global environment / Jonathan Adams.

Author

Adams, J. M. (Jonathan M.)

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007.

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Description

xvii, 232 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 26 cm.

Summary

"This book addresses the important - but often neglected - issue of vegetation interactions with climate. Although the subject of vegetation-climate interaction is a relatively young area of study, it is a compelling issue scientifically and is also of importance for land management practices. This book provides a readable, accessible account of the way in which the world's plant life in part controls its own environment."--Jacket.

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Subject

• Plant-atmosphere relationships
• Vegetation and climate
• Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
• Life sciences
• Geology, Economic
• Meteorology
• Geosciences
• Applied Geosciences
• Biogeosciences
• Economic Geology
• Meteorology/Climatology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-229) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. The climate system : What does climate vary from one place to another? ; Winds and currents the atmosphere and oceans ; The ocean circulation ; The thermohaline circulation ; The great heat-transporting machine -- 2. From climate to vegetation : Biomes: the broad vegetation types of the world ; An example of a biome or broad-scale vegetation type: tropical rainforest ; The world's major vegetation types ; Understanding the patterns ; What favors forest vegetation ; Deciduous or evergreen: the adaptive choices that plants make ; Cold-climate evergreens ; The latitudinal bands of evergreen and deciduous forest ; Nutrients and evergreenness ; Other trends in forest with climate ; Non-forest biomes ; Scrub biomes ; Grasslands ; Deserts ; Biomes are to some extent subjective ; Humans altering the natural vegetation, shifting biomes ; "predicting" where vegetation types will occur ; Species distributions and climate --^
• 3. Plants on the move : Vegetation can move as the climate shifts ; The Quaternary: the last 2.4 million years ; Biomes in the distant past ; The increasing greenhouse effect, and future vegetation change ; Response of vegetation to the present warming of climate ; Seasons as well as vegetation distribution are changing ; What will happen as the warming continues? -- 4. Microclimates and vegetation : What causes microclimates? ; From microclimates to macroclimates -- 5. The desert makes the desert: climate feedbacks from the vegetation of arid zones : Geography makes deserts ; But deserts make themselves ; Could the Sahara be made green? ; A human effect on climate?: the grasslands of the Great Plains in the USA ; The green Sahara of the past ; Could other arid regions show the same amplification of change by vegetation cover? ; Dust ; The future --^
• 6. Forests ; Finding out what forest really do to climate ; What deforestation does to climate within a region ; Re-afforestation ; The remote effects of deforestation ; The role of forest feedback in broad swings in climate ; Volatile organic compounds and climate ; Forest-climate feedbacks in the greenhouse world -- 7. Plants and the carbon cycle : The ocean ; Plants as a control on CO₂ and O₂ ; Methane: the other carbon gas ; Humans and the carbon store of plants ; The present increase in CO₂ ; The signal in the atmosphere ; The strength of the seasonal "wiggle" in CO₂ ; Accounting errors: the missing sink ; Watching forests take up carbon --^
• 8. The direct carbon dioxide effect on plants : The two direct effects of CO₂ on plants: photosynthesis and water balance ; Increased CO₂ effects at the scale of a leaf ; Modeling direct CO₂ effects ; ;What models predict for increasing CO₂ and global vegetation ; Adding climate change to the CO₂ fertilization effect ; Experiments with raised CO₂ and whole plants ; Temperature and CO₂ responses interaction ; A few examples of what is found in FACE experiments ; Other FACE experiments ; Some conclusions about FACE experiments ; There are other effects of enhanced CO₂ on plants apart from growth rate ; CO₂ fertilization and soils ; CO₂ fertilization effects across trophic levels ; CO₂ levels and stomata out in nature ; Direct CO₂ effects and the ecology of the past ; Other direct CO₂ effects: in the oceans ; The future direct CO₂ effect: a good or a bad thing for the natural world? ; Conclusion: the limits to what we can know.

ISBN

• 9783540324911
• 3540324917

LCCN

^^2007923289

OCLC

133038861

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library