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Trees and Global Warming

The Role of Forests in Cooling and Warming the Atmosphere
 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Short description:

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

Long description:
Large-scale tree planting is advocated to provide additional atmospheric cooling and further reduce global warming. This raises a question about the present time: do trees cool or warm the atmosphere? This question does not have a simple yes or no answer. Examination of the greenhouse effect, global warming and the carbon cycle, and how trees and forests function provides the basis for understanding how forests might cool or warm the atmosphere. Results from research and models indicate that cooling or warming depends on where forests are located and the type and color of trees. Cooling generally prevails over warming, but this may change. This book will appeal to anyone interested in climate change, ecology and conservation.

'This is a well written book with useful summaries at the beginning and end of each chapter, and a good set of references that will act as a useful source of information for practitioners, researchers and students.' Peter Thomas, British Ecological Society
Table 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.