یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-328) and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
A comprehensive overview of Earth's biosphere, written with scientific rigor and essay-like flair.In his latest book, Vaclav Smil tells the story of the Earth's biosphere from its origins to its near and long-term future. He explains the workings of its parts and what is known about their interactions. With essay-like flair, he examines the biosphere's physics, chemistry, biology, geology, oceanography, energy, climatology, and ecology, as well as the changes caused by human activity. He provides both the basics of the story and surprising asides illustrating critical but often neglected aspects of biospheric complexity.Smil begins with a history of the modern idea of the biosphere, focusing on the development of the concept by Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky. He explores the probability of life elsewhere in the universe, life's evolution and metabolism, and the biosphere's extent, mass, productivity, and grand-scale organization. Smil offers fresh approaches to such well-known phenomena as solar radiation and plate tectonics and introduces lesser-known topics such as the quarter-power scaling of animal and plant metabolism across body sizes and metabolic pathways. He also examines two sets of fundamental relationships that have profoundly influenced the evolution of life and the persistence of the biosphere: symbiosis and the role of life's complexity as a determinant of biomass productivity and resilience. And he voices concern about the future course of human-caused global environmental change, which could compromise the biosphere's integrity and threaten the survival of modern civilization.
یادداشتهای مربوط به سفارشات
منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
MIT Press
منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
MIT Press
شماره انبار
2551
شماره انبار
9780262283823
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
عنوان
Earth's biosphere.
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
0262194724
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Biosphere.
موضوع مستند نشده
Biosphere.
موضوع مستند نشده
Biosphere.
موضوع مستند نشده
NATURE-- Ecology.
موضوع مستند نشده
NATURE-- Ecosystems & Habitats-- Wilderness.
موضوع مستند نشده
SCIENCE-- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry-- Environmental)
موضوع مستند نشده
SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Ecology.
مقوله موضوعی
موضوع مستند نشده
NAT-- 010000
موضوع مستند نشده
NAT-- 045040
موضوع مستند نشده
SCI-- 020000
موضوع مستند نشده
SCI-- 026000
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
577
ويراست
21
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
QH343
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4
نشانه اثر
.
S655
2002eb
سایر رده بندی ها
شماره رده
Q148
کد سيستم
clc
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )