| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 573 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Physiological ecology series |
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Physiological ecology.
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| Contents |
Terrestrial primary productivity : definitions and milestones / Jacques Roy, Bernard Saugier -- Canopy photosynthesis : history, measurements, and models / Dennis D. Baldocchi, Jeffrey S. Amthor -- Terrestrial higher plant respiration and net primary production / Jeffrey S. Amthor, Dennis D. Baldocchi -- Phenology, growth, and allocation in global terrestrial productivity / Robert B. Jackson, Martin J. Lechowicz, Xia Li, and Harold A. Mooney -- From plant to soil : litter production and decomposition / Richard Joffre, Göran I. Ågren -- Herbivory and trophic interactions / Sam J. McNaughton -- Water, nitrogen, rising atmospheric CO₂ and terrestrial productivity / Denis Loustau, Bruce Hungate, Bert G. Drake -- How does biodiversity control primary productivity? / Jacques Roy -- Productivity of Arctic ecosystems / GaiusR. Shaver, Sven Jonasson -- Productivity of boreal forests / Paul G. Jarvis, Bernard Saugier, E.-Detlef Schulze -- Productivity of evergreen and deciduous temperate forests / Peter B. Reich, Paul Bolstad -- Productivity of temperate grasslands / Osvaldo E. Sala -- Productivity of agro-ecosystems / Jan Goudriaan, J.J. Rob Groot, Peter W.J. Uithol -- Hierarchy and productivity of Mediterranean-type ecosystems / Serge Rambal -- Productivity of deserts / James R. Ehleringer -- Productivity of tropical savannas and grasslands / Jo I. House, David O. Hall -- Productivity of tropical rain forests / John Grace, Yadvinder Malhi, Niro Higuchi, and Patrick Meir -- Determining present patterns of global productivity / Wolfgang Cramer [and others] -- Integrating global models of terrestrial primary productivity / Philippe Ciais, Pierre Friedlingstein, Andrew Friend, and David S. Schimel -- Reconstructing and modeling past changes in terrestrial primary productivity / Joël Guiot, I. Colin Prentice, Changhui Peng, Dominique Jolly, Fouzia Laarif, and Ben Smith -- Global terrestrial productivity and carbon balance / Richard A. Houghton -- Predicting the future productivity and distribution of global terrestrial vegetation / F. Ian Woodward, Mark R. Lomas, Susan E. Lee -- Estimations of global terrestrial productivity : converging toward a single number? / Bernard Saugier, Jacques Roy, Harold A. Mooney |
| Summary |
As the global climate changes, there are concomitant changes in global biological productivity. This book is devoted to the assessment of terrestrial Net Primary Productivity ("the total amount of energy acquired by green plants during photosynthesis, minus the energy lost through respiration"--APDS & T, pp. 1457). The book is comprised of three major sections. The first section is a review of the processes that operate globally to influence productivity--these are the initial conditions of any model of primary productivity. The second section is comprised of chapters that assess the c |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Biogeochemical cycles.
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Primary productivity (Biology)
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
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Biogeochemical cycles
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Primary productivity (Biology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Roy, Jacques, editor
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Saugier, Bernard, editor.
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Mooney, Harold A., editor
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| ISBN |
9780080518725 |
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0080518729 |
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