The emerging multidisciplinary field of earth system science sets out to improve our understanding functioning ecosystems, at a global level across the entire planet. Stable Isotopes and Biosphere - Atmosphere Interactions looks to one of its most powerful tools - the application of stable isotope analyses - to understanding biosphere-atmosphere exchange of the greenhouse gases, and synthesizes much of the recent progress in this work.

Introduction: Stable Isotopes and Earth System ScienceFactors Affecting the Oxygen Isotope Ratio of Plant Organic MaterialStable Isotope Composition of Soil Organic MatterFactors Determining the 13C Abundance of Soil-Respired CO2 in Factors that Control the Isotopic Composition of N2O from Soil Emissions Carbon and Hydrogen Isotopic Effects in Microbial Methane from Terrestrial EnvironmentsTheoretical Examination of Keeling-plot Relationships for Carbon Dioxide in a Temperate Broadleaved Partitioning Ecosystem Respiration using Stable Carbon Isotope Analyses of CO2Simulation of Ecosystem C18OO Isotope Fluxes in a Tallgrass Prairie: Biological and Physical ControlsEcosystem CO2 Exchange and Variation in the d18O of Atmospheric CO2Stable Isotope Constraints on Net Ecosystem Production under Elevated CO2Stable Isotopes as a Tool in Urban EcologyTerrestrial Ecosystems and Interannual Variability in the Global Atmospheric Budgets of 13CO2 and 12CO2Remarks on the Use of 13C and 18O isotopes in Atmospheric CO2 to Quantify Biospheric Carbon FluxesFactors Influencing the Stable Isotopic Content of Atmospheric N2OThe Carbon Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric Methane and its Constraint on the Global Methane Budget