David E. Reichle, retired Associate Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, B.S. Muskingum (1960) and Recipient of Muskingum University Distinguished Service Award (1996) has just published a book with Elsevier (November, 2019) entitled:

The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change

Dr. Reichle brings over four decades of research on the structure and function of forest ecosystems to bear on the existential issue of our time, climate change.Using a comprehensive review of carbon biogeochemistry as scaled from the physiology of organisms to landscape processes, his analysis provides an integrated discussion of how diverse processes at varying time and spatial scales function.The work speaks to several audiences.Too often students study their courses in a vacuum without necessarily understanding the relationships that transcend from the cellular process, to organism, to biosphere levels and exist in a dynamic atmosphere with its own processes, and spatial dimensions.This book provides the template whereupon students can be guided to see how the pieces fit together.The book is self-contained but lends itself to be amplified upon by a student or professor.The same intellectual quest would also apply for the lay reader who seeks a broad understanding.