The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
Scaling Ecological Energetics from Organism to the Biosphere
- 2nd Edition - February 24, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: David E. Reichle
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 7 7 5 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 7 7 4 - 2
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Request a sales quoteThe 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.
- Addresses the scientific principles governing carbon fluxes at successive hierarchical levels of organization, from cells to the biosphere
- Illustrates - through data and diagrams - the complex processes by which carbon moves in the global biogeochemical cycle
- Provides new information on tipping points for climate change and why there are climate deniers
All the environmental sciences, especially biogeochemistry, ecology and climatology; Researchers and decision makers in fossil energy industries, carbon mitigation industries, agricultural production and land use management, and international regulations for environmental protection
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Author biography
- Foreword of first edition
- Foreword of second edition
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline of major international programs about the Earth's biosphere and climate
- Chapter 1. An introduction to ecological energetics and the global carbon cycle
- Timeline of the physical and chemical bases of energy
- Chapter 2. The physical and chemical bases of energy
- 2.1. Energy, work, and power
- 2.2. The different forms of energy
- 2.3. The Laws of Thermodynamics
- 2.4. Gaia hypothesis
- 2.5. Carbon and energy
- Timeline of major developments in the field of energy exchange between organisms and the environment
- Chapter 3. Energy relationships between organisms and their environment
- 3.1. Energy balance
- 3.2. Functional interrelationships affecting leaf temperature
- 3.3. Solar
- 3.4. Thermal energy
- 3.5. Energy balance of a leaf
- 3.6. Radiative energy balance of a forest
- 3.7. Energy exchange of animals
- Timeline of major developments in the field of biological energy transformations by plants
- Chapter 4. Biological energy transformations by plants
- 4.1. Solar radiation
- 4.2. Photosynthesis
- 4.3. Strategies for coping with environmental constraints
- 4.4. Energy conversion efficiencies
- Timeline of major developments in the field of energy processing by animals
- Chapter 5. Energy processing by animals
- 5.1. Metabolism
- 5.2. Free energy
- 5.3. Respiration
- 5.4. Energy value of foods
- 5.5. Digestion and assimilation
- 5.6. Respiration rates
- 5.7. Energy costs of digestion
- 5.8. Food energy budget for an individual
- 5.9. Why pork is cheaper than beef and chicken costs least of all
- Timeline of major developments in the field of species adaptations to their environment
- Chapter 6. Species adaptations to their energy environment
- 6.1. The limits of survival
- 6.2. Adaptation to the energy environment
- 6.3. How do plants measure their radiative environment and gauge temperature?
- 6.4. Phenological relationships
- 6.5. Extreme environments
- Timeline of major developments in the field of food chain and trophic level transfers
- Chapter 7. Food chains and trophic level transfers
- 7.1. Food chains
- 7.2. Population dynamics and food chains
- 7.3. Food webs
- 7.4. Trophic levels
- 7.5. Trophic level efficiencies
- 7.6. Trophic structure of different ecosystems
- Timeline of major developments in the field of energy flow in ecosystems
- Chapter 8. Energy flow in ecosystems
- 8.1. Ecosystem energetics
- 8.2. Ecosystem production equations
- 8.3. Measurement of pools and fluxes
- 8.4. The carbon cycle in ecosystems
- 8.5. Comparison of carbon metabolism among ecosystems
- 8.6. Net ecosystem production and net ecosystem exchange
- 8.7. Emergent properties of ecosystems
- Timeline of developments in the field of ecosystem productivity
- Chapter 9. Ecosystem productivity
- 9.1. Terrestrial ecosystems
- 9.2. Freshwater ecosystems
- 9.3. Marine ecosystems
- 9.4. Secondary production
- 9.5. Global biome-scale production
- 9.6. Remote sensing of productivity
- 9.7. Factors affecting global productivity
- 9.8. Scaling from stand to the planetary boundary layer
- Timeline of developments in the field of the global carbon cycle
- Chapter 10. The global carbon cycle and the biosphere
- 10.1. The components of the global carbon cycle
- 10.2. Units of measure for the global scale
- 10.3. Calculating turnover times
- 10.4. History of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
- 10.5. The atmosphere in the carbon cycle
- 10.6. The terrestrial carbon cycle
- 10.7. The ocean carbon cycle
- 10.8. Models of carbon in the biosphere
- Timeline of anthropogenic alterations to the global carbon cycle
- Chapter 11. Anthropogenic alterations to the global carbon cycle and climate change
- 11.1. Changing atmospheric concentrations of CO2
- 11.2. The greenhouse effect
- 11.3. Climate change
- 11.4. The elements of weather and climate
- 11.5. Greenhouse gases
- 11.6. Anthropogenic contributions to atmospheric CO2
- 11.7. Where in the world are the CO2 emissions being generated?
- 11.8. Model projections of the future carbon cycle
- Timeline of properties of the global carbon cycle
- Chapter 12. Dynamic properties of the global carbon cycle
- 12.1. The complexities of nonlinear systems
- 12.2. Atmosphere
- 12.3. Terrestrial processes
- 12.4. Ocean processes
- 12.5. Feedbacks in the carbon cycle
- 12.6. Tipping points in the carbon cycle and climate system
- 12.7. Isotopic techniques used to measure dynamics
- Timeline of major developments in the development of climate models
- Chapter 13. Climate and climate models
- 13.1. Modeling climate
- 13.2. Climate models, data, and projections
- 13.3. Value of climate models to decision makers
- 13.4. Climate model uncertainties and confidence in predictions
- 13.5. Carbon cycle model projections of future atmospheres
- 13.6. Indicators of climate change
- 13.7. Climate model projections of the effects of climate change
- 13.8. Climate change risk assessment – The effects of climate change
- 13.9. Climate change and extreme weather-Effects if climate change
- Timeline of managing carbon in the global biogeochemical cycle
- Chapter 14. Managing carbon in the global biogeochemical cycle
- 14.1. Decarbonization of the energy system
- 14.2. Management of greenhouse gas emissions through natural pathways
- 14.3. Mitigation and adaptation
- 14.4. Geoengineering
- Timeline of major developments in the field of carbon, climate change, and public policy
- Chapter 15. Carbon, climate change, and public policy
- 15.1. What are the potential consequences of inaction?
- 15.2. Do we know enough?
- 15.3. International accords
- 15.4. The economics of clean energy
- 15.5. What has been the impedance?
- 15.6. Better communicating science
- 15.7. Is it too late to act?
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- Edition: 2
- Published: February 24, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 746
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443187759
- eBook ISBN: 9780443187742
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David E. Reichle
David E. Reichle was the Associate Laboratory Director at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Environmental, Life, and Social Sciences, and the former director of its Environmental Sciences Division. He was also adjunct Professor of Ecology at the University of Tennessee. He has authored over 100 scientific articles on radionuclides in the environment and the metabolism of ecosystems, edited 4 books on productivity and carbon metabolism of ecosystems, and led development of several seminal government reports on greenhouse gas reduction technologies and carbon sequestration. He has served on many scientific advisory boards for the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Academy of Sciences, and other academic institutions and business organizations. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a recipient of a Scientific Achievement Award from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, a Distinguished Service Award from the U.S. Department of Energy, and a Muskingum University Distinguished Alumni Service Award. He also served on the national board of Governors of The Nature Conservancy, and as Chairman of TNC’s Tennessee state chapter.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Labtory Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Environmental, Life, and Social Science; Professor, University of Tennessee, Tennessee, USARead The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change on ScienceDirect