Global Biogeochemical Cycles in the Climate System

Front Cover
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Global
Biogeochemical
Cycles in the
Climate System......Page 4
Copyright 2001 by Academic Press
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Contents
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Contributors......Page 14
Foreword......Page 16
Preface......Page 18
I Introduction
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1.1 - Uncertainties of Global Biogeochemical Predictions,......Page 25
1.2 - Uncertainties of Global Climate Predictions......Page 37
1.3 - Uncertainties in the
Atmospheric Chemical System......Page 53
1.4 - Inferring Biogeochemical Sources and Sinks from Atmospheric Concentrations: General Considerations and Applications in Vegetation Canopies,......Page 63
1.5 - Biogeophysical Feedbacks and the Dynamics of Climate......Page 83
1.6 - Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions and Monsoon Climate Change: A Paleo-Perspective......Page 95
1.7 - Paleobiogeochemistry......Page 109
1.8 - Should Phosphorus Availability Be Constraining Moist Tropical Forest Responses to Increasing CO2 Concentrations?......Page 117
1.9 - Trees in Grasslands: Biogeochemical Consequences of Woody Plant Expansion......Page 137
1.10 - Biogeochemistry in the Arctic: Patterns, Processes, and Controls......Page 161
1.11 - Evaporation in the Boreal Zone During Summer—Physics and Vegetation......Page 173
1.12 - Past and Future Forest Response to Rapid Climate Change......Page 189
1.13 - Biogeochemical Models: Implicit versus Explicit Microbiology......Page 199
1.14 - Global Soil Organic Carbon Pool......Page 207
1.15 - Plant Compounds and Their Turnover and Stabilization as Soil Organic Matter......Page 223
1.16 - Input/Output Balances and Nitrogen Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems......Page 239
1.17 - Interactions between Hillslope Hydrochemistry, Nitrogen Dynamics, and Plants in Fennoscandian Boreal Forest......Page 249
1.18 - The Cycle of Atmospheric Molecular Oxygen and Its Isotopes......Page 257
1.19 - Constraining the Global Carbon Budget from Global to Regional Scales—The Measurement Challenge......Page 267
1.20 - Carbon Isotope Discrimination of Terrestrial Ecosystems — How Well Do Observed and Modeled Results Match?......Page 275
1.21 - Photosynthetic Pathways and Climate......Page 289
1.22 - Biological Diversity, Evolution, and Biogeochemistry......Page 301
1.23 - Atmospheric Perspectives on the Ocean Carbon Cycle......Page 307
1.24 - International Instruments for the Protection of the World Climate and Their National Implementation......Page 317
1.25 - A New Tool for Characterizing and Managing Risks......Page 325
1.26 - Contrasting Approaches: The Ozone Layer, Climate Change, and Resolving the Kyoto Dilemma......Page 339
1.27 - Optimizing Long-Term Climate Management......Page 355
Subject Index......Page 367