Author : Lennart Bengtsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2001-10-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521782388
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Author : Laszlo Nagy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662499029
This book offers a panorama of recent scientific achievements produced through the framework of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere programme (LBA) and other research programmes in the Brazilian Amazon. The content is highly interdisciplinary, with an overarching aim to contribute to the understanding of the dynamic biophysical and societal/socio-economic structure and functioning of Amazonia as a regional entity and its regional and global climatic teleconnections. The target readership includes advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students and researchers seeking to untangle the gamut of interactions that the Amazon’s complex biophysical and social system represent.
Author : Russell Monson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107729580
Fluxes of trace gases, water and energy - the 'breathing of the biosphere' - are controlled by a large number of interacting physical, chemical, biological and ecological processes. In this interdisciplinary book, the authors provide the tools to understand and quantitatively analyse fluxes of energy, organic compounds such as terpenes, and trace gases including carbon dioxide, water vapour and methane. It first introduces the fundamental principles affecting the supply and demand for trace gas exchange at the leaf and soil scales: thermodynamics, diffusion, turbulence and physiology. It then builds on these principles to model the exchange of water, carbon dioxide, terpenes and stable isotopes at the ecosystem scale. Detailed mathematical derivations of commonly used relations in biosphere-atmosphere interactions are provided for reference in appendices. An accessible introduction for graduate students and a key resource for researchers in related fields, such as atmospheric science, hydrology, meteorology, climate science, biogeochemistry and ecosystem ecology.
Author : Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2001-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080507409
The interactions of biogeochemical cycles influence and maintain our climate system. Land use and fossil fuel emissions are currently impacting the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur on land, in the atmosphere, and in the oceans.This edited volume brings together 27 scholarly contributions on the state of our knowledge of earth system interactions among the oceans, land, and atmosphere. A unique feature of this treatment is the focus on the paleoclimatic and paleobiotic context for investigating these complex interrelationships.* Eight-page colour insert to highlight the latest research* A unique feature of this treatment is the focus on the paleoclimatic context for investigating these complex interrelationships.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 1981-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309031966
Author : Gordon Bonan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1107043786
Provides an essential introduction to modeling terrestrial ecosystems in Earth system models for graduate students and researchers.
Author : Thomas E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300206119
An essential, up-to-date look at the critical interactions between biological diversity and climate change that will serve as an immediate call to action The physical and biological impacts of climate change are dramatic and broad-ranging. People who care about the planet and manage natural resources urgently need a synthesis of our rapidly growing understanding of these issues. In this all-new sequel to the 2005 volume Climate Change and Biodiversity, leading experts in the field summarize observed changes, assess what the future holds, and offer suggested responses. From extinction risk to ocean acidification, from the future of the Amazon to changes in ecosystem services, and from geoengineering to the power of ecosystem restoration, this book captures the sweep of climate change transformation of the biosphere.
Author : Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262195133
This book presents the complete story of the inseparably intertwined evolution of life and matter on earth, focussing on four major topics. It analyzes the driving forces behind global change and uses this knowledge to propose principles for global stewardship.
Author : Richard B. Alley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393083233
The book—companion to a PBS series—that proves humans are causing global warming and offers a path to the future. Since the discovery of fire, humans have been energy users and always will be. And this is a good thing-our mastery of energy is what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom and has allowed us to be the dominant species on the planet. However, this mastery comes with a price: we are changing our environment in a profoundly negative way by heating it up. Using one engaging story after another, coupled with accessible scientific facts, world authority Richard B. Alley explores the fascinating history of energy use by humans over the centuries, gives a doubt-destroying proof that already-high levels of carbon dioxide are causing damaging global warming, and surveys the alternative energy options that are available to exploit right now. These new energy sources might well be the engines for economic growth in the twenty-first century.
Author : David Schimel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691151962
How does life on our planet respond to--and shape--climate? This question has never been more urgent than it is today, when humans are faced with the daunting task of guiding adaptation to an inexorably changing climate. This concise, accessible, and authoritative book provides an unmatched introduction to the most reliable current knowledge about the complex relationship between living things and climate. Using an Earth System framework, David Schimel describes how organisms, communities of organisms, and the planetary biosphere itself react to and influence environmental change. While much about the biosphere and its interactions with the rest of the Earth System remains a mystery, this book explains what is known about how physical and chemical climate affect organisms, how those physical changes influence how organisms function as individuals and in communities of organisms, and ultimately how climate-triggered ecosystem changes feed back to the physical and chemical parts of the Earth System. An essential introduction, Climate and Ecosystems shows how Earth's living systems profoundly shape the physical world.
