The Interplay Between the Biosphere and Climate

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-73224-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

The climate issue is at the center of discussions related to the high frequency and greater intensity of devastating natural disasters, establishing a new term: “climate crisis.” This book explores the dialogue between the biosphere and the climate system and analyzes the threats to the biosphere from current climate change. It evaluates existing unsolved problems concerning the changes in the biosphere caused by human activities, especially those that are thought to be irreversible, such as the increase of carbon dioxide, the pollution of air, soil, fresh, and salt water, and deforestation. It focuses on the new techniques of studying the climate system and the methods that lead to the interconnection with the biosphere.

Features

- A comprehensive evaluation of the present-day understanding of the Climate-Biosphere system evolution.

- Discusses the parameters of biogeochemical cycles and other environmental processes in the context of climate–biosphere interdependence.

- Explores interactive modeling of the natural and anthropogenic processes, and the link between their components.

- Describes the biosphere as a complex system and includes survivability indicators and development, verification, and application of climate-biosphere models.

- Highlights a new approach and relevant results of the internal variability of the climatic system based on Paleo-reconstruction of the climate.

- Explains the operational diagnostics, the estimation of the scale of damage, and the aftermath reduction of the stressful natural, biological, and hydrogeochemical processes.

This reference is for professionals, researchers, academics, and students in Biology, Climatology, Ecology, Atmospheric Sciences, Geophysics, Hydrology, and Socio-Economic Sciences.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Varotsos, Costas A.

Mazei, Yuri A.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Basics on Climate and Biosphere. 2. Carbon Cycle and the Biosphere. 3. Ecosystems as Multiscale Complex Systems. 4. The Environment as a Complex System: Applications. 5. Natural Disasters: Threats, Opportunities, and Solutions for the Biosphere.

Über Autor(innen)

Costas Varotsos is a Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Remote Sensing Letters and the International Journal of Atmosphere and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. His expertise and research include Remote Sensing, Climate-Environmental Dynamics, and Natural Disasters. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and 18 Monographs. He has received many honors and awards from several Academies, Universities, and Research Institutions.

Yuri A. Mazei is a Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia. He is the Deputy-Chief-Editor of the journal Protistology and an editorial board member of the European Journal of Ecology. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and two monographs. He has been awarded a medal for young scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences and an honorary diploma from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.