Global Change and the Terrestrial Biosphere: Achievements and Challenges

by Herman H. Shugart

Global climate change challenges ecologists to synthesize what weknow to solve a problem with deep historical roots in ourdiscipline. In ecology, the question, "How doterrestrial ecosystems interact with the other earth systems toproduce planetary change?" has sufficient depth to bethe focal challenge. This central question is sharpenedfurther as the changes that we may be manifesting upon ourplanet's systems of land, sea, air and ice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405185619
• ISBN13: 9781405185615
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 9.2"