Trees and Global Warming - The Role of Forests in Cooling and Warming the Atmosphere

Looks at the question: do forests cool or warm the atmosphere and reduce global warming?

List of contents

1. Global warming and forests in the Anthropocene; 2. The gases that cause the greenhouse effect; 3. Carbon and photochemical oxidant cycles; 4. Biogeochemical and bio geophysical factors that affect trees; 5. Trees in a warming world; 6. Forests of the world; 7. Knowledge base for forests in cooling and warming; 8. Mitigating global warming by forests; 9. Bringing it all together.

About the author

William J. Manning is Professor Emeritus in the Laboratory of Plant Environmental Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests are in plant responses to ambient and elevated CO2 and ozone, urban plant biology, and plants as indicators of ambient ozone. He has published extensively in the primary literature. His teaching has focused on courses in Air Pollution and Climate Change Biology and Urban Plant Biology. He was a member of the US EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Council (CASAC). He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environmental Pollution.

Summary

Tree planting is seen as one way that people can directly influence and hopefully reduce global warming now and in the future. This book provides a detailed analysis of how and where forests influence global warming. It will appeal to anyone interested in climate change, ecology and conservation.

Product details

• Authors: William J. Manning, William J. (University of Massachusetts Manning, Manning William J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781108471787
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47178-7
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, Environmental Management, Conservation of the environment, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Meteorology & climatology, Plant Ecology, Meteorology and climatology, Forests, rainforests, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Botany and plant sciences, Forests and woodland