Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change 3rd Edition by William H. Schlesinger and Emily S. Bernhardt examines the effects of human activities on the chemistry of the Earth, including climate change, nitrogen pollution, and ocean acidification. It shows how current technology can help extrapolate the results of small-scale field studies to the global level.
Key features easy readability, making a seemingly difficult subject fun and compelling, cohesive, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary approach, timely topics including the role of biogeochemistry in climate change research synthesis of the current literature on the Earth's biogeochemistry. Revised content and new figures and tables reflect the vast growth of this scientific field over the past decade.
End-of-chapter problem sets reinforce learning. Color figures include numerous maps of global biogeochemical phenomena. Addition of a substantial number of citations of material published since the last edition (more than 4,500 total), including many added as the book was going to press. Companion website includes web links, recommended reading, and images from the book.
This text shows how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth-from atmosphere to soil to seawater-have been and are being affected by the existence of life. Human activities in particular, from the rapid consumption of resources to the destruction of the rainforests and the expansion of smog-covered cities, are leading to rapid changes in the basic chemistry of the Earth.
This expansive text pulls together the numerous fields of study encompassed by biogeochemistry to analyze the increasing demands of the growing human population on limited resources and the resulting changes in the planet's chemical makeup. It helps students extrapolate small-scale examples to the global level, and also discusses the instrumentation being used by NASA and its role in studies of global change.
With extensive cross-referencing of chapters, figures and tables, and an interdisciplinary coverage of the topic at hand, this updated edition provides an excellent framework for courses examining global change and environmental chemistry, and is also a useful self-study guide. It calculates and compares the effects of industrial emissions, land clearing, agriculture, and rising population on Earth's chemistry.
This edition synthesizes the global cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur, and suggests the best current budgets for atmospheric gases such as ammonia, nitrous oxide, dimethyl sulfide, and carbonyl sulfide. It includes an extensive review and up-to-date synthesis of the current literature on the Earth's biogeochemistry.
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