The Terrestrial Biosphere and Global Change
Subtitle: Implications for Natural and Managed Ecosystems (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book Series)
Contributors: Brian Walker (Editor); Will Steffen (Editor); Josep Canadell (Editor); John Ingram (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780521624299
Subjects: Applied ecology; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry); Ecology; Science; Life Sciences - Ecology; Science/Mathematics; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Climatic changes; Biosphere--Research; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Research; Biodiversity; Biological diversity; Biosphere
First sentence: Despite the growing prominence of global change as an environmental issue, the term 'global change' and the phenomena it encompasses are still widely misunderstood.