VegetationClimate Interaction How Plants Make the Global Environment /

Jonathan Adams provides a readable, accessible account of the way in which the worlds plant life partly controls its own environment. Starting from the broad patterns in vegetation which have classically been seen as a passive response to climate, the book builds up from the local scale - microclim...

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Main Author: Adams, Jonathan. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
Edition:Second Edition.
Series:Springer Praxis Books
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00881-8
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