Vegetation-climate interaction : how plants make the global environment
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Bibliographic Information
Vegetation-climate interaction : how plants make the global environment
（Springer-Praxis books in environmental sciences）
Springer , Published in association with Praxis Publishing, 2010
2nd ed
Available at 11 libraries
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
471.71:A16:2nd ed5011091310
Note
Previous ed.: Berlin: Springer, 2007
Bibliography: p. [261]-263
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An accessible account of the ways in which the world's plant life affects the climate. It covers everything from tiny local microclimates created by plants to their effect on a global scale. If you've ever wondered how vegetation can create clouds, haze and rain, or how plants have an impact on the composition of greenhouse gases, then this book is required reading.
Table of Contents
1. The climate system 2. From climate to vegetation 3. Plants on the move 4. Microclimates and vegetation 5. The desert makes the desert: Climate feedbacks from the vegetation of arid zones 6. Forests 7. Plants and the carbon cycle 8. The direct carbon dioxide effect on plants
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