Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment
Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary description of C and N fluxes between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere; issues related to C and N management in different ecosystems and their implications for the environment and global climate change; and the approaches to mitigate emission of greenhouse gases.
Drawing upon the most up-to-date books, journals, bulletins, reports, symposia proceedings and internet sources documenting interrelationships between different aspects of C and N cycling in the terrestrial environment, Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment fills the gap left by most of the currently available books on C and N cycling. They either deal with a single element of an ecosystem, or are related to one or a few selected aspects like soil organic matter (SOM) and agricultural or forest management, emission of greenhouse gases, global climate change or modeling of SOM dynamics.
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Nitrogen and carbon in terrestrial ecosystems,
Being a trained ecologist, but a newcomer to the field of carbon and nitrogen dynamics, this book met my requirement for an easily accessible overview of the topic. It is essentially an expanded textbook: a 430 page review of current data, issues and approaches in the field of nitrogen and carbon in terrestrial ecosystems.
Springer, however, should be embarrased by the number of typographical and grammatical errors in the book, including several on the first page. An inconsistent use of ‘the’ is particularly frustrating. Paragraph 1 of page 1 contains a sentence missing a the – “Flow of carbon occurs between different spheres, leading to what is generally termed carbon cycle”. Then Paragraph 3 contains a sentence with an over-abundance of the word the – “As early as 1896, Arrhenius indicated the importance of CO2 in the air on the global temperature and calculated the alteration of temperature that would follow with the increase in CO2 concentration”. Basic geographical errors also occur, such as mis-spelling of Gabon as Gabun, Madagascar as Madagaskar and Bangladesh as Bangla Desh.
While one or two errors can easily be glossed over by a reader, the number of errors in this book makes me wonder whether a similar lapse in attention has occurred by the authors in their review and reporting of the literature. As a newcomer to the field I have no basis to judge otherwise, apart from referring to the original papers, thereby defeating my interest in the synthesized nature of this book. I fear I have wasted my money on this very expensive book.
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|Posted on June 5th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
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