BookTakeshi Ohta [and more], editors.
Summary: This book discusses the water and carbon cycle system in the permafrost region of eastern Siberia, providing vital insights into how climate change has affected the permafrost environment in recent decades. It analyzes the relationships between precipitation and evapotranspiration, gross primary production and runoff in the permafrost regions, which differ from those intropical and temperate forests. Eastern Siberia is located in the easternmost part of the Eurasian continent, and the land surfacewith underlying permafrost has developed over a period of seventy thousand years. The permafrost ecosystem has specific hydrological and meteorological characteristics in terms of the water and carbon dynamics, and the current global warming and resulting changes in the permafrost environment are serious issues in the high-latitude regions. The book is a valuable resource for students, researchers and professionals interested in forest meteorology and hydrology, forest ecology, and boreal vegetation, as well as the impact of climate change and water-carbon cycles in permafrost and non-permafrost regions.
Contents:
Introduction
Atmospheric water cycle
Water cycles in forests
Carbon cycles in forests
Methane and biogenic volatile organic compound emissions in eastern Siberia
Stable isotopes of water in Permafrost ecosystem
Water-carbon cycle in dendrochronology
Permafrost-forest dynamic
River Discharge
Remote sensing of vegetation
Remote sensing of terrestrial water
Water-carbon cycle modeling
Concluding Remarks.