戴維·比爾林(David Beerling)
英國謝菲爾德大學自然科學教授和利華休姆減緩氣候變化中心主任。戴維·比爾林在學術期刊上發錶多篇論文,《植物知道地球的奧秘》是他的一部科普作品。2014年,戴維·比爾林當選英國皇傢學會會員。
Plants have transformed our planet over the last 470 million years as they invaded the land and diversified into the astonishing variety we know today. But their influence has reached even further: they have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment, in recording hidden facets of Earth's history, and in helping us to predict its future. His account draws together evidence from fossil plants, from experiments with their living counterparts, and from computer models of the 'Earth System', to illuminate the history of our planet and its biodiversity. This new approach reveals how plummeting carbon dioxide levels removed a barrier to the evolution of the leaf; how forests once grew on Antarctica, how plants played a starring role in allowing spectacular giant insects to thrive in the Carboniferous; and strengthens fascinating and contentious fossil evidence for an ancient hole in the ozone layer. Along the way, Beerling introduces a lively cast of pioneering scientists from Victorian times onwards whose discoveries provided the crucial background to these and the other puzzles. This new understanding of our planet's past sheds a sobering light on our own climate-changing activities, and offers clues to what our climatic and ecological futures might look like. There could be no more important time to take a close look at plants, and to understand the history of the world through the stories they tell.
發表於2024-11-07
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評分你是否也喜歡園藝,喜歡養幾盆花草?你的花草是欣欣嚮榮,還是常常活不過一個月呢?喜歡養花,但是總是養不活的你肯定常常感嘆,雨林中,山榖裏,雪山腳下那些無人照顧看管的植物,怎麼都長得那麼茂盛?鼕去春來,植物隨著春天一同降臨大地,仿佛有一雙看不見的雙手在撫育它們...
評分你是否也喜歡園藝,喜歡養幾盆花草?你的花草是欣欣嚮榮,還是常常活不過一個月呢?喜歡養花,但是總是養不活的你肯定常常感嘆,雨林中,山榖裏,雪山腳下那些無人照顧看管的植物,怎麼都長得那麼茂盛?鼕去春來,植物隨著春天一同降臨大地,仿佛有一雙看不見的雙手在撫育它們...
評分《植物知道地球的奧秘》這本書取瞭個很好的名字,它包含“植物”兩個字看起來很文藝,它又包含“地球”兩個字看起來很理性,最後又包含“奧秘”兩個字讓它看起來很有誘惑性。如果你真的以為裏麵是讓人狡黠一笑的八卦猛料,那麼就大錯特錯瞭。雖然的確有很多有趣的觀點在其中,...
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The Emerald Planet 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載