The authors demonstrate that the role of vegetation in the terrestrial carbon cycle during this time can be analysed by considering the key elements of present day vegetation processes linked to models of the global climate during different geological eras.
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Investigating the past from the present
3. Climate and terrestrial vegetation of the present
4. The global climate system and terrestrial carbon cycle
5. The late Carboniferous
6. The Jurassic
6. The Cretaceous
8. The Eocene
9. The late Quaternary
10. Climate and terrestrial vegetation in the future
11. Endview
References
Index
"[...] pioneering, thought provoking and scholarly [...] The bottom line is that, if you are interested in plant-atmosphere interactions, then this book is worth reading."
– Dennis Baldocchi, TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution
"[...] an excellent reference to a new approach using data on vegetation and the carbon cycle."
– Philip E. LaMoreaux, Environmental Geology