Global Biogeochemical Cycles in the Climate System

About this book

Brings together 27 scholarly contributions on global biogeochemistry that summarizes the status and knowledge of the interaction and linkages between ocean, land, surface and atmosphere.

Contents

1 Uncertainties of Global Biogeochemical Predictions 2 Uncertainties of Global Climate Predictions 3 Uncertainties in the Atmospheric Chemical System 4 Inferring Biogeochemical Sources and Sinks from Atmospheric Concentrations: General Consideration and Applications in Vegetarian Canopies 5 Biogeophysical Feedbacks and the Dynamics of Climate 6 Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions and Monsoon Climate Change: A Paleo-Perspective 7 Paleobiogeochemistry 8 Should Phosphorus Availability Be Constraining Moist Tropical Forest Responses to Increasing CO2 Concentrations? 9 Trees in Grasslands: Biogeochemical Consequences of Woody Plant Expansion 10 Biogeochemistry in the Arctic: Patterns, Processes, and Controls 11 Evaporation in the Boreal Zone During Summer--Physics and Vegetation 12 Past and Future Forest Response to Rapid Climate Change 13 Biogeochemical Models: Implicit vs. Explicit Microbiology 14 The Global Soil Organic Carbon Pool 15 Plant Compounds and Their Turnover and Stability as Soil Organic Matter 16 Input/Output Balances and Nitrogen Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems 17 Interactions Between Hillslope Hydrochemistry, Nitrogen Dynamics and Plants in Fennoscandian Boreal Forest 18 The Cycle of Atmospheric Molecular Oxygen and its Isotopes 19 Constraining the Global Carbon Budget from Global to Regional Scales -- the Measurement Challenge 20 Carbon Isotope Discrimination of Terrestrial Ecosystems -- How Well do Observed and Modeled Results Match? 21 Photosynthetic Pathways and Climate 22 Biological Diversity, Evolution and Biogeochemistry 23 Atmospheric Perspectives on the Ocean Carbon Cycle 24 International Instruments for the Protection of the Climate and Their National Implementation 25 A New Tool to Characterizing and Managing Risks 26 Contrasting Approaches: The Ozone Layer, Climate Change and Resolving the Kyoto Dilemma 27 Optimizing Long-Term Climate Management Subject Index

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