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  3. Vegetation and the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2009
Print publication year:
2001
Online ISBN:
9780511541940
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511541940
Subjects:
Life Sciences, Ecology and Conservation
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Book description

Plants have colonised and modified the World's surface for the last 400 million years. In this book the authors demonstrate that an understanding of the role of vegetation in the terrestrial carbon cycle during this time can be gained by linking the key mechanistic elements of present day vegetation processes to models of the global climate during different geological eras. The resulting interactive simulations of climate and vegetation processes tie in with observable geological data, such as the distributions of coals and evaporites, supporting the validity of the authors' approach. Simulation of possible conditions in future centuries are also presented, providing valuable predictions of the status of the Earth's vegetation and carbon cycle at a time of global warming.

Reviews

‘The book is pioneering, thought provoking and scholarly … if you are interested in plant-atmosphere interactions, then the book is worth reading.’

Dennis Baldocchi Source: TRENDS in Ecology & Evolution

‘… pioneering, thought provoking and scholarly … The bottom line is that, if you are interested in plant-atmosphere interactions, then this book is worth reading.’

Dennis Baldocchi Source: TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution

‘… an excellent reference to a new approach using data on vegetation and the carbon cycle.’

Philip E. LaMoreaux Source: Environmental Geology

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