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Plants and microclimate : a quantitative approach to environmental plant physiology
- Title
- Plants and microclimate : a quantitative approach to environmental plant physiology / Hamlyn G. Jones.
- Author
- Jones, Hamlyn G.
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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| Text | Request in advance | QK754.5 .J66 1992 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiv, 428 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-411) and index.
- Contents
- 1. A quantitative approach to plant-environment interactions. Modelling. Use of experiments -- 2. Radiation. Radiation laws. Radiation measurement. Radiation in natural environments. Radiation in plant communities. Radiation distribution within plant canopies. Indirect methods for determining canopy structure -- 3. Heat, mass and momentum transfer. Measures of concentration. Molecular transport processes. Convective and turbulent transfer. Transfer processes within and above plant canopies -- 4. Plant water relations. Physical and chemical properties of water. Cell water relations. Measurement of plant water status. Hydraulic flow. Liquid phase transport processes -- 5. Energy balance and evaporation. Energy balance. Measures of water vapour concentration. Evaporation. Evaporation from plant communities. Estimating evaporation rates. Dew -- 6. Stomata. Distribution of stomata. Stomatal mechanics. Methods of study. Stomatal response to environment -- 7. Photosynthesis and respiration. Photosynthesis.
- Respiration. Measurement and analysis of CO2 exchange. Chlorophyll fluorescence. Control of photosynthesis. Carbon isotope discrimination. Response to environment. Photosynthetic models, efficiency and productivity. Evolutionary and ecological aspects -- 8. Light and plant development -- 9. Temperature. Physical basis of the control of tissue temperature. Physiological effects of temperature. Effects of temperature on plant development. High temperature injury. Low temperature injury. Ecological aspects -- 10. Drought and drought tolerance. Plant water deficits and physiological processes. Drought tolerance. Further analysis of water use efficiency. Crop water stress index -- 11. Wind, altitude, carbon dioxide and atmospheric pollutants. Wind. Altitude. Greenhouse effect. Atmospheric pollutants -- 12. Physiology and yield improvement. Variety improvement. Modelling and determination of crop ideotype. Development of screening tests. Examples of applications.
- ISBN
- 0521415020 (hardback)
- 0521425247 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 91024016
- OCLC
- 24246934
- ocm24246934
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries