1. Ecosystems and climate; Part I. The Earth System: 2. Components of the Earth system; 3. Global cycles; Part II. Global Physical Climatology: 4. Atmospheric radiation; 5. Atmospheric general circulation and climate; 6. Earth's climates; 7. Climate variability; 8. Climate change; Part III. Hydrometeorology: 9. Soil physics; 10. Water balance; 11. Watershed hydrology; 12. Surface energy fluxes; 13. Turbulent fluxes; 14. Soil moisture and the atmospheric boundary layer; Part IV. Biometeorology: 15. Leaf temperature and energy fluxes; 16. Leaf photosynthesis and stomatal conductance; 17. Plant canopies; Part V. Terrestrial Plant Ecology: 18. Plant strategies; 19. Populations and communities; 20. Ecosystems; 21. Soil biogeochemistry; 22. Vegetation dynamics; 23. Landscapes and disturbances; 24. Global biogeography; Part VI. Terrestrial Forcings and Feedbacks: 25. Terrestrial ecosystems and earth system models; 26. Seasonal-to-interannual variability; 27. Biogeophyscial climate-vegetation dynamics; 28. Anthropogenic land use and land-cover change; 29. Carbon cycle-climate feedbacks; 30. Nitrogen, chemistry, and climate; 31. Aerosols, chemistry, and climate; 32. Urbanization; 33. Climate intervention and geoengineering; 34. Co-evolution of climate and life; References; Index.

Review of previous edition: 'Gordon Bonan's excellent Ecological Climatology … provides an up-to-date status report on ecosystem-climate interactions … across a broad range of disciplines. The text is clearly written and little specialized knowledge is required to read it … [This book] clearly outlines the scope of possibility for integrating the physics of climate, the biological principles of ecology, and the biogeochemical pathways that link atmosphere and land surface.' David S. Gutzler, Natural Resources Journal