Assesses the effects of climate change on US agriculture, land resources and biodiversity. This book discusses the nation's ability to identify, observe and monitor the stresses that influence agriculture, land resources, water resources and biodiversity,

How does life on our planet respond to--and shape--climate? This question has never been more urgent than it is today, when humans are faced with the daunting task of guiding adaptation to an inexorably changing climate. This concise, accessible, and authoritative book provides an unmatched introduction to the most reliable current knowledge about the complex relationship between living things and climate.

Using an Earth System framework, David Schimel describes how organisms, communities of organisms, and the planetary biosphere itself react to and influence environmental...