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Meteorology. Climatology --- General ecology and biosociology --- Vegetation and climate --- Plant ecophysiology --- Climatic changes --- Climatologie --- Climatology --- Écosystème --- ecosystems --- Changement climatique --- Climatic change --- Utilisation des terres --- land use --- Impact sur l'environnement --- Environmental impact --- Biogéographie --- Biogeography --- Facteur climatique --- climatic factors --- Climatic changes. --- Plant ecophysiology. --- Vegetation and climate. --- Basic Sciences. Meteorology --- Climatology.

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Climate models have evolved into Earth system models with representation of the physics, chemistry, and biology of terrestrial ecosystems. This companion book to Gordon Bonan's Ecological Climatology: Concepts and Applications, Third Edition, builds on the concepts introduced there, and provides the mathematical foundation upon which to develop and understand ecosystem models and their relevance for these Earth system models. The book bridges the disciplinary gap among land surface models developed by atmospheric scientists; biogeochemical models, dynamic global vegetation models, and ecosystem demography models developed by ecologists; and ecohydrology models developed by hydrologists. Review questions, supplemental code, and modeling projects are provided, to aid with understanding how the equations are used. The book is an invaluable guide to climate change and terrestrial ecosystem modeling for graduate students and researchers in climate change, climatology, ecology, hydrology, biogeochemistry, meteorology, environmental science, mathematical modeling, and environmental biophysics.

Biotic communities --- Ecology --- Climatic changes. --- Global environmental change. --- Mathematical models.

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"The tenth of November 1888 was a fine autumn day before the dreary span of winter in Washington, DC. The afternoon was warm, one of several days with pleasant temperatures, and there was only a trace amount of rain.1 The agreeable weather likely lifted the spirits of Washingtonians, and as night fell and the sky darkened and the temperature dropped, there was an air of excitement and anticipation among leading intellectuals in the nation's capital. Nearly three hundred years of European settlement had greatly altered the landscape of the United States.2 The Virginia and New England countryside found by the first English colonists contained extensive old-growth forest. Thereafter, the landscape was cleared of forests, felled for their wood products and replaced by homesteads, towns, and farmland. The vast virgin forests of New England - towering white pines, giants of the forest, famed for the masts they had provided the navy; mixtures of beech, maple, and birch along with hemlock and spruce in northern states; oaks and hickories in southern New England - had long since been felled.3 Similar widespread clearing had altered the forests of Virginia and other states along the eastern seaboard, and the same pattern of forest clearing was repeated in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions with the westward expansion of the population.4 A popular belief at the time was that deforestation was decreasing rainfall"--

Forest meteorology --- Forests and forestry --- Deforestation --- Forest meteorology. --- Météorologie forestière. --- Forêts --- Déboisement --- Climatic factors. --- Environmental aspects. --- Effets du climat. --- Aspect environnemental. --- Nature protection --- Meteorology. Climatology --- General ecology and biosociology --- Forestry

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For centuries, people have understood that forests, and our utilisation of them, influence the climate. With modern environmental concerns, there is now scientific, governmental, and popular interest in planting trees for climate protection. This book examines the historical origins of the idea that forests influence climate, the bitter controversy that ended the science, and its modern rebirth. Spanning the 1500s to the present, it provides a broad perspective across the physical and biological sciences, as well as the humanities, to explain the many ways forests influence climate. It describes their use in climate-smart forestry and as a natural climate solution, and demonstrates that in the forest-climate question, human and sylvan fates are linked. Accessibly written with minimal mathematics, it is ideal for students in environmental and related sciences, as well as anyone with an interest in understanding the environmental workings of forests and their interactions with climate.

Forest meteorology. --- Forests and forestry --- Deforestation --- Climatic factors. --- Environmental aspects.

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The third edition of Gordon Bonan's comprehensive textbook introduces an interdisciplinary framework to understand the interaction between terrestrial ecosystems and climate change. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying ecology, environmental science, atmospheric science, and geography, it reviews basic meteorological, hydrological, and ecological concepts to examine the physical, chemical, and biological processes by which terrestrial ecosystems affect and are affected by climate. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with new science and references. The scope has been expanded beyond its initial focus on energy, water, and carbon to include reactive gases and aerosols in the atmosphere. The new edition emphasizes the Earth as a system, recognizing interconnections among the planet's physical, chemical, biological, and socioeconomic components, and emphasizing global environmental sustainability. Each chapter contains chapter summaries and review questions, and with over 400 illustrations, including many in color, this textbook will once again be an essential student guide.

Vegetation and climate --- Plant ecophysiology --- Climatic changes