Vegetation-Climate Interaction: How Plants Make the Global Environment

by Jonathan Adams

Book Overview

This book offers a readable and accessible account of the ways 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. Coverage includes the influence of plants (both on land and in the ocean) in making...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642008801
• ISBN13: 9783642008801
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.6"