Titre :	Biogeochemistry : an analysis of global change
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Schlesinger, William H., Auteur
Mention d'édition :	3 ed.
Editeur :	Elsevier
Année de publication :	2013
Importance :	672 p.
Format :	23 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978012385874
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Index. décimale :	577 Ecologie
Résumé :	This is a textbook about the chemistry of the surface of the Earth—the arena of life that is now increasingly affected by human activities. It is remarkable how many of our current environmental problems, ranging from climate change to ocean acidification, stem from changes in the Earth's chemistry wrought by humans. We hope that students using this book will come to appreciate how the Earth functions naturally as a chemical system, what events have caused changes in Earth's surface chemistry in the past, and what is causing our planet to change rapidly today. The book melds a wide range of disciplines from astrophysics to molecular biology and scales of time, from the origin of the Earth to the coming decades. Like its previous editions, this book's organization follows the structure of a class in biogeochemistry that we have taught for many years at Duke University—first by Schlesinger, then by both of us, and more recently by Bernhardt. Following our class syllabus, we have organized the book into two sections: Part I covers the microbial and chemical reactions that occur in the atmosphere, on land, in freshwaters, and in the sea. Part II is a set of shorter chapters that link the mechanistic understanding of the earlier chapters to a large-scale, synthetic view of global biogeochemical cycles. Every section of this book has been revised from the most recent edition (1997), with special emphasis given to expand our treatment of freshwaters and aquatic ecosystems.

Biogeochemistry : an analysis of global change [texte imprimé] / Schlesinger, William H., Auteur  . -  3 ed. . - Elsevier, 2013 . - 672 p. ; 23 cm.
ISSN : 978012385874
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Index. décimale :

577 Ecologie

Résumé :

This is a textbook about the chemistry of the surface of the Earth—the arena of life that is now increasingly affected by human activities. It is remarkable how many of our current environmental problems, ranging from climate change to ocean acidification, stem from changes in the Earth's chemistry wrought by humans. We hope that students using this book will come to appreciate how the Earth functions naturally as a chemical system, what events have caused changes in Earth's surface chemistry in the past, and what is causing our planet to change rapidly today. The book melds a wide range of disciplines from astrophysics to molecular biology and scales of time, from the origin of the Earth to the coming decades. Like its previous editions, this book's organization follows the structure of a class in biogeochemistry that we have taught for many years at Duke University—first by Schlesinger, then by both of us, and more recently by Bernhardt. Following our class syllabus, we have organized the book into two sections: Part I covers the microbial and chemical reactions that occur in the atmosphere, on land, in freshwaters, and in the sea. Part II is a set of shorter chapters that link the mechanistic understanding of the earlier chapters to a large-scale, synthetic view of global biogeochemical cycles. Every section of this book has been revised from the most recent edition (1997), with special emphasis given to expand our treatment of freshwaters and aquatic ecosystems.