Vegetation and the terrestrial carbon cycle modelling the first 400 million years

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 veget...

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Otros Autores: Beerling, D. J., autor (autor), Woodward, F. I., autor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2001.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.