Synopsis
In Cycles of Life, Vaclav Smil explores the crucial insight that, through their participation in biogeochemical cycles, living organisms act as a tremendously important agent of change in their environment. He shows, for example, how the composition of the atmosphere has been affected by microscopic organisms of the ocean; climate by the Earth's vegetation; soil chemistry by microbes teeming on and beneath the planet's surface.
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About the Author
Vaclav Smil is a professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.
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