Vegetation-Climate Interaction: How Vegetation Makes the Global Environment (Springer Praxis Books / Environmental Sciences)

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This Hardcover Book item from Springer was reviewed on 25-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Vegetation-Climate Interaction: How Vegetation Makes the Global Environment (Springer Praxis Books / Environmental Sciences) by Springer. This book is an interesting overview of some processes that place climate science in a broader, more accurate context. The friendly "one-hour conference talk" format makes for an easy read, but also leads to a few problems.
I simply don´t understand why the publisher let the author get away with claiming sources like "Wikipedia," and "author." Wikpedia is not a source, and "author" has to refer to a specific paper. This undermines the book´s credibility. Most of the color plates are not helpful, and even then they don´t need to be printed again in black and white.
In monetary terms, I think this book would be worth about $25 US.¤

2) Hardcover Book Vegetation-Climate Interaction: How Vegetation Makes the Global Environment (Springer Praxis Books / Environmental Sciences) by Springer. This book offers a readable and accessible account of the way in which the world´s plant life partly controls its own environment. Starting from the broad patterns in vegetation which have classically been seen as a passive response to climate, the authors build up from the local scale - with microclimates produced by plants - to the regional and global scale. The influence of plants (both on land and in the ocean) in making clouds, haze and rain are considered, along with plant effects on the composition of greenhouse gases in the earth´s atmosphere. Broad global feedbacks that either stabilize or destabilize the earth´s environment will be explored, in the context of environmental change in the recent geological past, and in the near future. Common contentions and misconceptions about the role of vegetation or forest removal in the spread of deserts will also be considered.¤

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