Vegetation and Climate

Vegetation, soil, and climate are the most important components of ecological systems. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition by Siegmar-W. Breckle and M. Daud Rafiqpoor, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2019. It is a compact synthesis of our current knowledge about the ecology of the Earth and is the basis for understanding the major interrelationships in a global perspective.

Format: Hardback
Length: 557 pages
Publication date: 09 November 2022
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Vegetation, soil, and climate are the most vital components of ecological systems. The book represents a concise synthesis of our current knowledge about the ecology of the Earth and serves as a foundation for understanding the significant interrelationships on a global scale. In the first part, adorned with a wealth of illustrations and photographic material, the well-introduced book delves into the essential processes and operations on the Earth's surface that give rise to the distinctive vegetation cover with its zoning. In the second part, the individual vegetation zones, considered as large-scale ecosystems or zonobiomes of the biosphere, are consistently described based on specific criteria. In a concise and compact manner, the book discusses the main characteristics, structures, and examples of ecosystem processes. These large-scale ecosystems simultaneously serve as the basis and reference system for all anthropogenic changes that have profoundly altered the vegetation over the past millennia, particularly in the 20th century. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Vegetation und Klima by Siegmar-W. Breckle and M. Daud Rafiqpoor, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was accomplished with the assistance of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was primarily focused on content to ensure that the book reads stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature is committed to continuously advancing the development of tools for book production and related technologies to support authors.

Weight: 1634g
Dimension: 288 x 217 x 42 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783662640357
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022