The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change: Scaling Ecological
Energetics from Organism to the Biosphere, Second Edition examines the
global carbon cycle and energy balance of the biosphere, following
carbon and energy through increasingly complex levels of
metabolism--from cells to ecosystems. Utilizing scientific explanations,
analyses of ecosystem functions, extensive references, and cutting-edge
examples of energy flow in ecosystems, this is an essential resource to
aid in understanding the scientific basis of the role of ecological
systems in climate change. Includes new chapters on dynamic properties
of the global carbon cycle, climate models and projections, and managing
carbon in the global biogeochemical cycle.