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Vegetation and the terrestrial carbon cycle : modelling the first 400 million years / D.J. Beerling & F.I. Woodward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beerling, D. J., author.
- Woodward, F. I., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)--Mathematical models.
- Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry).
- Plant ecology--Mathematical models.
- Plant ecology.
- Paleoclimatology--Mathematical models.
- Paleoclimatology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 405 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Vegetation & the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Investigating the past from the present
- Climate and terrestrial vegetation of the present
- The global climate system and terrestrial carbon cycle
- The late Carboniferous
- The Jurassic
- The Cretaceous
- The Eocene
- The late Quaternary
- Climate and terrestrial vegetation in the future
- Endview
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-12290-2
- 1-280-43315-9
- 0-511-15475-5
- 0-511-17473-X
- 0-511-04772-X
- 9786610433155
- 0-511-54194-5
- 0-511-30373-4
- OCLC:
- 559423395
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