Plant-Atmosphere Relationships

✍ Scribed by John Grace (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 92
• Series: Outline Studies in Ecology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this small book I have tried to confine myself to the absolute necessities in a field which requires a knowledge of both biology and physics. It is meant as a primer for biological undergraduates. I hope it will lead some of them to further, more advanced, study. It has not been easy to present the subject in so few pages, and I am aware of many omissions. I hope readers will agree that it is best to concentrate on a small number of topics, which together constitute an essay on plant-atmosphere relationships. Advanced students will be able to take the subject further if they look up some of the references. Text books that I particularly recommend are those by Monteith [38] and Campbell [lOO]. If the reader intends to carry out research investigations he should also consult Fritschen and Lloyd [105] for an introduction to instrumentation in environmental biophysics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-6
Conditions for life....Pages 7-20
Radiation coupling....Pages 21-36
Coupling through boundary layers....Pages 37-56
Heat and water exchange at plant surfaces....Pages 57-65
Field observations....Pages 66-77
Back Matter....Pages 78-92

✦ Subjects

Science, general