Climate and Ecosystems
How does life on our planet respond to and shape climate This question has never been urgent than it is today, when humans are faced with the daunting task of guiding adaptation to an inexorably changing climate This concise, accessible, and authoritative book provides an unmatched introduction to the most reliable current knowledge about the complex relationship between living things and climate Using an Earth System framework, David Schimel 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 An essential introduction, Climate and Ecosystems shows how Earth s living systems profoundly shape the physical world. Best Download [ Climate and Ecosystems ] author [ David Schimel ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Very poorly written Unclear who the audience is jumps from simplistic explanations of phenomena to explanations of equations likely useful for only those most involved in a particular subject.
- 25 March 2018 David Schimel
- Hardcover
- 222 pages
- 0691151954
- David Schimel
- Climate and Ecosystems