Covers key topics in Global Ecology, such as Atmospheric impacts on the Bioshpere, energy, carbon, and climate change.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• EDITORIAL BOARD
• Preface
• PART A: GLOBAL ECOLOGY, THE BIOSPHERE AND ITS EVOLUTION
• INTRODUCTION - S E Jørgensenl
• ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC DIVERSITY IN THE BIOSPHERE - P J Geogievich
• ANTHROPOSPHERIC AND ANTROPOGENIC IMPACT ON THE BIOSPHERE - S Pegov
• ASTROBIOLOGY - C P McKay
• BIOGEOCOENOSIS AS AN ELEMENTARY UNIT OF BIOGEOCHEMICAL WORK IN THE BIOSPHERE - J Puzachenko
• BIOSPHERE. VERNADSKY'S CONCEPT - Y M Svirezhev and A Svirejva-Hopkins
• DEFORESTRATION - A Shvidenko
• ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOSPHERIC IMPACTS OF NUCLEAR WAR - P Carl, YSvirezhev and G Stenchikov
• EVOLUTION OF OCEANS - R Klige
• EVOLUTION OF ‘PREY-PREDATOR’ SYSTEMS - H Matsuda
• FUNGI AND THEIR ROLE IN THE BIOSPHERE - G M Gadd
• GAIA HYPOTHESIS - P J Boston
• HYDROSPHERE - Z W Kundzewicz
• NOOSPHERE - C Jäger
• PEDOSPHERE - V O Targulian and R W Arnold
• PHENOMENON OF LIFE: GENERAL ASPECTS - S V Chernyshenko
• STRUCTURE AND HISTORY OF LIFE - S V Chernyshenko
• PART B: GLOBAL CYCLES, BALANCES AND FLOWS
• CALCIUM CYCLE - C L De La Rocha, C J Hoff and J G Bryce
• CARBON CYCLE - V N Bashkin and I V Priputina
• ENERGY BALANCE - A Kleidon
• ENERGY FLOWS IN THE BIOSPHERE - Y M Svirezhev
• ENTROPY AND ENTROPY FLOWS IN THE BIOSPHERE - Y M Svirezhev
• INFORMATION AND INFORMATION FLOWS IN THE BIOSPHERE - P J Georgievich
• IRON CYCLE - K A Hunter and R Strzepek
• MATTER AND MATTER FLOWS IN THE BIOSPHERE - S V Chernyshenko
• MICROBIAL CYCLES - G A Zavarzin
• NITROGEN CYCLE - P E Widdison and T P Burt
• OXYGEN CYCLE - D J Wuebbles
• PHOSPHORUS CYCLE - Y Liu and J Chen
• RADIATION BALANCE AND SOLAR RADIATION SPECTRUM - I N Sokolik
• RADIONUCLIDES: THEIR BIOCHEMICAL CYCLES AND THE IMPACTS ON THE BIOSPHERE - H N Lee
• SULPHUR CYCLE - P A Loka Bharathi
• WATER CYCLE - Z W Kundzewicz
• XENOBIOTICS CYCLES - V N Bashkin
• PART C: GLOBAL PATTERNS AND PROCESSES
• AGRICULTURE - D Lyuri
• MATERIAL AND METAL ECOLOGY - M A Reuter and A van Schaik
• METHANE IN THE ATMOSPHERE - S A Pegov
• MONITORING, OBSERVATIONS, AND REMOTE SENSING - GLOBAL DIMENSIONS - S Unninayar and L Olsen
• OCEAN CURRENTS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE BIOSPHERE - A Ganopolski
• PRECIPITATION PATTERN - F W Gerstengarbe and P C Werner
• TEMPERATURE PATTERNS - l l Mokhov and A V Eliseev
• URBANIZATION AS A GLOBAL PROCESS - A Svirejeva-Hopkins
• WEATHERING - S Franck, C Bounama, and W von Bloh
• PART D: CLIMATE CHANGE
• CLIMATE CHANGE 1: SHORT-TERM DYNAMICS - G Alexandrov
• CLIMATE CHANGE 2: LONG-TERM DYNAMICS - W von Bloh
• CLIMATE CHANGE 3: HISTORY AND CURRENT STATE - I I Mokhov and A V Eliseev
• COEVOLUTION OF THE BIOSPHERE AND CLIMATE - D W Schwartzman
• GLOBAL CHANGE IMPACTS ON THE BIOSPHERE - W Cramer
• PART E: ECOLOGICAL STOICHIOMETRY
• ECOLOGICAL STOICHIOMETRY: OVERVIEW - R W Sterner and J J Elser
• ECOSYSTEM PATTERNS AND PROCESSES - S A Thomas and J Cebrian
• EVOLUTIONARY AND BIOCHEMICAL ASPECTS - A D Kay and T Vrede
• ORGANISAL ECOPHYSIOLOGY - T Vrede and A D Kay
• POPULATION AND COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS - J P Grover
• TRACE ELEMENTS - A Quigg