Vegetation-Climate Interaction [electronic resource] :How Vegetation Makes the Global Environment / by Jonathan Adams.
by Adams, Jonathan [author.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: Springer Praxis Books: Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.Description: XXIII, 232 p. online resource.ISBN: 9783540324928.Subject(s): Life sciences | Geology, economic | Meteorology | Geosciences | Applied Geosciences | Biogeosciences | Economic Geology | Meteorology/ClimatologyOnline resources: Click here to access online
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Springer eBooksSummary: This book offers a readable and 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 authors build up from the local scale - with microclimates produced by plants - to the regional and global scale. The influence of plants (both on land and in the ocean) in making clouds, haze and rain are considered, along with plant effects on the composition of greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere. Broad global feedbacks that either stabilize or destabilize the earth's environment will be explored, in the context of environmental change in the recent geological past, and in the near future. Common contentions and misconceptions about the role of vegetation or forest removal in the spread of deserts will also be considered.
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.
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