
The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
Scaling Ecological Energetics from Organism to the Biosphere
Description
Key Features
- Provides clear explanations, examples, and data for understanding fossil fuel emissions affecting atmospheric CO2 levels and climate change, and the role played by ecosystems in the global cycle of energy and carbon
- Presents a comprehensive, factually based synthesis of the global cycle of carbon in the biosphere and the underlying scientific bases
- Includes clear illustrations of environmental processes
Readership
Environmental scientists, economists, corporate sustainability professionals, policy makers
Table of Contents
1. An Introduction to Ecological Energetics and the Global Carbon Cycle
2. The Physical and Chemical Bases of Energy
3. Energy Relationships between Organisms and the Environment
4. Biological Energy Transformations by Plants
5. Energy Processing by Animals
6. Species Adaptations to their Energy Environment
7. Food Chains and Trophic Level Transfers
8. Energy Flow in Ecosystems
9. Ecosystem Productivity
10. The Global Carbon Cycle and the Biosphere
11. Anthropogenic Alterations to the Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
12. Carbon, Climate Change, and Public Policy
Product details
- No. of pages: 388
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: November 8, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128202449
About the Author
David Reichle

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