books about: biogeochemistry

books about: biogeochemistry

books:

Biogeochemistry

The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat

Eric Roston

Walker & Company, 2008

A Revealing Look at One of Life's Most Important Elements
Carbon is everywhere. While many people have gone through life without realizing this basic fact, this captivating new book shows us why it is time to reconsider this position. Roston opens the door to the world of carbon - an element that impacts everything from ...

Biogeochemistry of Wetlands: Science and Applications
K. Ramesh Reddy, Ronald D. DeLaune

CRC, 2008

Wetland ecosystems maintain a fragile balance of soil, water, plant, and atmospheric components in order to regulate water flow, flooding, and water quality. Marginally covered in traditional texts on biogeochemistry or on wetland soils, Biogeochemistry of Wetlands is the first to focus entirely on the biological, geological, physical, and ...

Environmental Microbiology: From Genomes to Biogeochemistry
Eugene L. Madsen

Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

This well-referenced, inquiry-driven text presents an up-to-date and comprehensive understanding of the emerging field of environmental microbiology. Coherent and comprehensive treatment of the dynamic, emerging field of environmental microbiology Emphasis on real-world habitats and selective pressures experienced by naturally occurring ...

Stable Isotope Ecology

Brian Fry

Springer, 2007

A good book that interest me a lot
The author gave readers clear points in chapters with his humorous style. If you are the reader that want to understant stable isotope issue in ecology this is absolutly a great book for begining.

An Introduction to Marine Biogeochemistry

Susan M. Libes

Wiley, 1992

Dr. Libes is thorough and easy to understand
In this text, Dr. Libes tackles the inter-relationship between all the sciences as they occur in the marine environment. She entertains the most complex concepts with pragmatic efficiency. It is a delight to read and work through, levaing you with a real sense of ...

Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics

Jorge L. Sarmiento

Princeton University Press, 2006

great textbook for oceanography students
This book will introduce you to the basics and important concepts of biogeochemical oceanography. It's a good reference book and I think it will be helpful for graduate students to prepare for their qualification exams.

Biogeochemistry : An Analysis of Global Change

W.H. Schlesinger

Academic Press, 1997

Such a good textbook
I had to buy this for a Biogeochemical Cycles class. The book is great! It's actual readable, which I was never expecting. It's interesting and understandable. The first reviewer is right that it doesn't get too complex, but references out the more difficult parts. ...

Biogeochemistry of Estuaries
Thomas S. Bianchi

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

Biogeochemistry of Estuaries offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to understanding biogeochemical cycling in estuaries. Designed as a text for intermediate to advanced students, this book utilizes numerous illustrations and an extensive literature base to impart the current state-of-the-art knowledge in this field. While many of ...

Microbial Ecology of the Oceans (Wiley Series in Ecological and Applied Microbiology)

Ralph Mitchell

Wiley-Liss, 2008

Expert Review
"Microbial Ecology of the Oceans" presents timely and up-to-date reviews of various aspects of microbial ecology of the marine water column....Well-written and authoritative chapters should make it useful as a text for advanced courses and for graduate students. ...

Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology

F. Stuart Chapin III, Harold A. Mooney, ...

Springer, 2004

Absolutely Top Notch.
This is one heck of a book! I'm very, very impressed. I'm certainly going to use for my courses, and I think it will be used by many others teachers and professor. I think it will find itself along side Schlesinger's Biogeochemistry as a standard textbook for ...

The Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World (Scientific Committee on Problems ...

Island Press, 2004

Geochemical and Biogeochemical Reaction Modeling
Craig M. Bethke

Cambridge University Press, 2008

This book provides a comprehensive overview of reaction processes in the Earth's crust and on its surface, both in the laboratory and in the field. A clear exposition of the underlying equations and calculation techniques is balanced by a large number of fully worked examples. The book uses The Geochemist's Workbench® modeling software, developed ...

Earth System Science From Biogeochemical Cycles to Global Changes (International Geophysics)
Michael Jacobson, Robert J. Charlson, ...

Academic Press, 2000

Over the last decade, the study of cycles as a model for the earth's changing climate has become a new science. Earth Systems Science is the basis for understanding all aspects of anthropogenic global change, such as chemically forced global climate change. The work is aimed at those students interested in the emerging scientific discipline. ...

Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter

Academic Press, 2002

The best book you can get when studying DOM
The Hansell&Carlson-book is probably the best and most up to date book you can get within the field. It has a very covering index and is very well written and can therefore be highly recommended.

Gas Trees and Car Turds: Kids' Guide to the Roots of Climate Change

Kirk Johnson

Fulcrum Publishing, 2007

Excellent, original way to explain global warming to kids and adults
Put on your oxygen shoes! Kirk Johnson is well known and loved for making physical science seem not only real, but funny and engaging. Look no further to understand why planting trees helps reduce greenhouse gases, how much carbon your car produces on an average trip, ...