Biogeochemistry
An Analysis of Global Change
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- Winner of a 2014 Texty Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association
- Calculates and compares the effects of industrial emissions, land clearing, agriculture, and rising population on Earth's chemistry
- Synthesizes the global cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur, and suggests the best current budgets for atmospheric gases such as ammonia, nitrous oxide, dimethyl sulfide, and carbonyl sulfide
- Includes an extensive review and up-to-date synthesis of the current literature on the Earth's biogeochemistry
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Table of Contents
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Processes and Reactions
Chapter 1. Introduction
What is biogeochemistry?
Understanding the earth as a chemical system
Scales of endeavor
Lovelock’s gaia
Recommended Readings
Chapter 2. Origins
Introduction
Origins of the Elements
Origin of the solar system and the solid earth
Origin of the atmosphere and the oceans
Origin of life
Evolution of metabolic pathways
Comparative planetary history: earth, mars, and venus
Summary
Recommended Readings
Chapter 3. The Atmosphere
Introduction
Structure and Circulation
Atmospheric Composition
Biogeochemical Reactions in the Troposphere
Atmospheric Deposition
Biogeochemical Reactions in the Stratosphere
Models of the Atmosphere and Global Climate
Summary
Recommended Readings
Chapter 4. The Lithosphere
Introduction
Rock weathering
Soil chemical reactions
Soil development
Weathering rates
Summary
Recommended Readings
Chapter 5. The Biosphere: The Carbon Cycle of Terrestrial Ecosystems
Introduction
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Net Primary Production
Net Ecosystem Production and Eddy-Covariance Studies
The Fate of Net Primary Production
Remote Sensing of Primary Production and Biomass
Global Estimates of Net Primary Production and Biomass
Net Primary Production and Global Change
Detritus
Soil Organic Matter and Global Change
Summary
Recommended Readings
Chapter 6. The Biosphere: Biogeochemical Cycling on Land
Introduction
Biogeochemical cycling in land plants
Nutrient allocations and cycling in land vegetation
Biogeochemical cycling in the soil
Calculating landscape mass balance
Human impacts on terrestrial biogeochemistry
Summary
Recommended Readings
Chapter 7. Wetland Ecosystems
Introduction
Types of wetlands
Productivity in wetland ecosystems
Organic matter storage in wetlands
Microbial metabolism in saturated sediments
Anaerobic metabolic pathways
Wetlands and water quality
Wetlands and global change
Summary
Recommended Readings
Chapter 8. Inland Waters
Introduction
Lakes
Rivers
Estuaries
Human impacts on inland waters
SUMMARY
Recommended Readings
Chapter 9. The Oceans
Introduction
Ocean circulation
The composition of seawater
Net primary production
Sediment diagenesis
The biological pump: a model of carbon cycling in the ocean
Nutrient cycling in the ocean
Biogeochemistry of hydrothermal vent communities
The marine sulfur cycle
The sedimentary record of biogeochemistry
Summary
Recommended Readings
Part II: Global Cycles
Chapter 10. The Global Water Cycle
Introduction
The global water cycle
Models of the hydrologic cycle
The history of the water cycle
The water cycle and climate change
Summary
Recommended Readings
Chapter 11. The Global Carbon Cycle
Introduction
The modern carbon cycle
Temporal perspectives on the carbon cycle
Atmospheric methane
Carbon monoxide
Synthesis: linking the carbon and oxygen cycles
Summary
Recommended Readings
Chapter 12. The Global Cycles of Nitrogen and Phosphorus
Introduction
The global nitrogen cycle
Temporal variations in the global nitrogen cycle
Nitrous oxide
The global phosphorus cycle
Linking global biogeochemical cycles
Summary
Recommended Readings
Chapter 13. The Global Cycles of Sulfur and Mercury
Introduction
The global sulfur cycle
The global mercury cycle
Summary
Recommended Reading
Chapter 14. Perspectives
Recommended Reading
References
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 688
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2013
- Published: December 31, 2012
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780123858757