(RGS-IBG Book Series) 1st Edition
by Martin Evans (Author)
The first systematic examination of the role of geomorphological processes in the cycling of carbon through the terrestrial system.
- Argues
that knowledge of geomorphological processes is fundamental to
understanding the ways in which carbon is stored and recycled in the
terrestrial environment
- Integrates classical geomorphological
theory with understanding of microbial processes controlling the
decomposition of organic matter
- Develops an interdisciplinary research agenda for the analysis of the terrestrial carbon cycle
- Informed
by work in ecology, microbiology and biogeochemistry, in order to
analyse spatial and temporal patterns of terrestrial carbon cycling at
the landscape scale
- Considers the ways in which, as Humanity
enters the Anthropocene, the application of this science has the
potential to manage the terrestrial carbon cycle to limit increases in
atmospheric carbon
