Terrestrial global productivity /

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Imprint:San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, [2001]
©2001
Description:1 online resource (xx, 573 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:English
Series:Physiological ecology series
Physiological ecology.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11156332
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Other authors / contributors:Roy, Jacques, editor.
Saugier, Bernard, editor.
Mooney, Harold A., editor.
ISBN:9780080518725
0080518729
9781281033369
1281033367
9780125052900
0125052901
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:As the global climate changes, there are concomitant changes in global biological productivity. This book is devoted to the assessment of terrestrial Net Primary Productivity ("the total amount of energy acquired by green plants during photosynthesis, minus the energy lost through respiration"--APDS & T, pp. 1457). The book is comprised of three major sections. The first section is a review of the processes that operate globally to influence productivity--these are the initial conditions of any model of primary productivity. The second section is comprised of chapters that assess the c.
Other form:Print version: Terrestrial global productivity. San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, ©2001 0125052901 9780125052900