Global Ecology
Global Ecology
Editor: Jorgensen, S.
Publication Year: 2010
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
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$107.94

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$161.91
ISBN: 978-0-444-53626-6
Category: Science - Environmental sciences
Image Count:
218
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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