Climate and ecosystems / David Schimel.
Series: Princeton primers in climatePublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013Copyright date: 2013Description: xv, 222 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780691151953
- 0691151954
- 9780691151960
- 0691151962
- 577 23
- QC903 .S35 2013
- ASLI Choice Award
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BOOK | NCAR Library Mesa Lab | QC903 .S35 2013 | 1 | Available | 50583020008227 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index.
The Climate system -- Climate controls over ecosystems -- Ecosystem feedbacks and interactions with climate -- Modeling the future -- Summary and concluding thoughts.
"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 book provides an introduction to the most reliable current knowledge about the complex relationship between living things and climate. Using an Earth System framework, the author 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."--Publisher information.
ASLI Choice Award