Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, The Earth System: Biological and Ecological Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (Volume 2)

Volume 2 of the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change deals with the fundamental science that underpins the understanding of quantities and processes that control the basic biogeochemical cycles, and the associated changes in ecosystem physiology and structure under current and predicted human-driven global environmental change.

These changes also include the dramatic loss of species, and the world's reorganization of biota towards higher homogenization.

Main themes covered includes:

• spatial scales of the biosphere including species, populations, communities, ecosystems, biomes, and the Earth system as a whole