Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles
Subtitle: Global Change And Human Impacts (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series)
Contributors: Jerry Melillo (Editor); Christopher B. Field (Editor); Bedrich Moldan (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781559630658
Subjects: Environmental chemistry; Pollution & threats to the environment; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Ecology; Biogeochemistry; Nature/Ecology; Science; Human Ecology; Environmental Science; Effect of human beings on; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Science / Biology; Science / Environmental Science; Biogeochemical cycles; Nature; Earth Sciences - Geology; Congresses
First sentence: The grand cycles of C, H, O, N, P, S, and perhaps as many as 25 other elements sustain life on earth (Box 1.1).