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Terrestrial Global Productivity (Physiological Ecology) by Jacques Roy, Harold A. Mooney, Bernard Saugier

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Terrestrial Global Productivity (Physiological Ecology) Jacques Roy, Harold A. Mooney, Bernard Saugier
Language: English
Page: 597
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0125052901, 9780080518725
Publisher: Academic Press

Review

"..the editors have done a commendable job in bringing together the collective wisdom of 50 prominent ecologists."
-Shibu Jose for FOREST SCIENCE (2002)

"...a veritable 'Who's who' in plant, ecosystem, and earth-system ecology, provide concise reviews of a variety of topics related to production. ...For anyone studying global change, earth systems, or ecosystem ecology, for graduate seminars on the topic, or for those who might wish to begin an integrative, global synthesis, Terrestrial Global Productivity is an indispensable reference."
-Shahid Naeem, Dept of Zoology, University of Washington, in ECOLOGY (February 2002)

"This volume assembles researchers from all over the world and achieves the goal of updating and synthesizing current knowledge on global productivity. Appropriate for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers, and professionals in the field of ecosystem studies."
-CHOICE (November 2001)

From the Back Cover

Plants convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into sugar and from there into plant tissues. This conversion of the solar energy into biomass is called primary productivity. This stored energy controls the productivity of other organisms from microscopic bacteria and fungi to the giant dinosaurs of the past. There is a predictable relationship between primary productivity and the potential productivity of other organisms. In essence, primary productivity is the foundation on which all other trophic levels depend. Therefore, an estimate of the primary productivity of the Earth permits an estimate of the productivity at other trophic levels.
Terrestrial Global Productivitybegins with a discussion of the various processes that have an effect on primary productivity. The second section of the book is a survey of especially well-known ecosytems such as the arctic, temperate and boreal forests, deserts, and tropical savannas, grasslands, and rain forests. The final section is a synthetic and detailed review of global patterns of productivity, modeling productivity, and predicting productivity.
This book is certain to be of interest to anyone fascinated by the relationship between productivity and ecosystem structure and function. Those interested in climate change, the impact of changing levels of greenhouse gases on ecosystems, and the relationship between different trophic levels in ecosystems will want to have this important book.