Climate and ecosystems

Resource Information

The work Climate and ecosystems represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Climate and ecosystems

Statement of responsibility

David Schimel

Creator

• Schimel, David Steven

Subject

• Biotic communities
• Biotic communities
• Climate change mitigation
• Climate change mitigation
• Ecosystem management
• Ecosystem management
• Ekosystemförvaltning
• Environment and Ecology
• Environment and ecology
• Klima
• Klimatförändringar
• Miljöledning
• Synökologie
• Ökosystem
• Biosphäre

Language

eng

Summary

"How does life on our planet respond to, and shape, climate? This question has never been more urgent than it is today, when humans are faced with the daunting task of guiding adaptation to an inexorably changing climate. This book provides an introduction to the most reliable current knowledge about the complex relationship between living things and climate. Using an Earth System framework, the author describes how organisms, communities of organisms, and the planetary biosphere itself react to and influence environmental change. While much about the biosphere and its interactions with the rest of the Earth System remains a mystery, this book explains what is known about how physical and chemical climate affect organisms, how those physical changes influence how organisms function as individuals and in communities of organisms, and ultimately how climate-triggered ecosystem changes feed back to the physical and chemical parts of the Earth System."--Publisher information

Member of

• Princeton primers in climate

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

577

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

QC903

LC item number

.S35 2013

Literary form

non fiction

NAL call number

QC903

NAL item number

.S35 2013

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Princeton primers in climate