| Description |
xviii, 530 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
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Ecological studies
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Ecological studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
PART 1. THE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 RECORD -- Rise of trees and how they changed Paleozoic atmospheric CO2, climate, and geology / Robert A. Berner -- Atmospheric CO2 during the late Paleozoic and Mesozoic: estimates from Indian soils / Prosenjit Ghosh ... [et al.] -- Alkenone-based estimates of past CO2 levels: a consideration of their utility based on an analysis of uncertainties / Katherine H. Freeman, Mark Pagani -- Atmospheric CO2 data from ice cores: four climatic cycles / Thomas Blunier ... [et al.] -- Atmospheric CO2 and ¹³CO2 exchange with the terrestrial biosphere and oceans from 1978 to 2000: observations and carbon cycle implications / Charles D. Keeling ... [et al.] -- PART 2. BIOTIC RESPONSES TO LONG-TERM CHANGES IN ATMOSPHERIC CO2 -- Evolutionary responses of land plants to atmospheric CO2 / David J. Beerling -- Cretaceous CO2 decline and the radiation and diversification of angiosperms / Jennifer C. McElwain ... [et al.] -- Influence of uplift, weathering, and base cation supply on past and future CO2 levels / Jacob R. Waldbauer, C. Page Chamberlain -- Atmospheric CO2, environmental stress, and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis / Rowan F. Sage -- Influence of atmospheric CO2, temperature, and water on the abundance of C3/C4 taxa / James R. Ehleringer -- Evolution and growth of plants in a low CO2 world / Joy K. Ward -- Environmentally driven dietary adaptations in African mammals / Thure E. Cerling ... [et al.] -- Terrestrial mammalian herbivore response to declining levels of atmospheric CO2 during the Cenozoic: evidence from North American fossil horses (family Equidae) / Bruce J. MacFadden -- CO2, grasses, and human evolution / Nicholaas J. van der Merwe -- PART 3. ATMOSPHERIC CO2 AND MODERN ECOSYSTEMS -- Carbon cycle over the past 1000 years inferred from the inversion of ice core data / Cathy Trudinger ... [et al.] -- Remembrance of weather past: ecosystem responses to climate variability / David Schimel ... [et al.] -- Effects of elevated CO2 on keystone herbivores in modern arctic ecosystems / Scott R. McWilliams, James O. Leafloor -- PART 4. ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES TO A FUTURE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 -- Modern and future forests in a changing atmosphere / Richard J. Norby ... [et al.] -- Modern and future semi-arid and arid ecosystems / M. Rebecca Shaw ... [et al.] -- Effects of CO2 on plants at different timescales / Belinda E. Medlyn, Ross E. McMurtrie -- Herbivory in a world of elevated CO2 / Richard L. Lindroth, M. Denise Dearing -- Borehole temperatures nad climate change: a global perspective / Robert N. Harris, David S. Chapman. |
| Subject |
Plants -- Effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide on.
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Plants -- Effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide on. |
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects.
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects. |
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Climatic changes.
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Climatic changes. |
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Ecophysiology.
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Ecophysiology. |
| Added Author |
Ehleringer, J. R.
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Cerling, T. E.
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Dearing, M. Denise (Maria-Denise)
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| ISBN |
0387220690 alkaline paper |
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