TY  - GEN
AU  - Gates, David M
TI  - Biophysical ecology
SN  - 9780486428840
U1  - 577 GAT 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Dover Publications
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Biophysics
KW  - Bioenergetics
KW  - Forest ecology
KW  - Life sciences
KW  - Energy Budget
KW  - Radiation laws
KW  - Solar radiation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This classic and highly influential text presents a uniquely comprehensive view of the field of biophysical ecology. In its analytical interpretation of the ecological responses of plants and animals to their environments, it draws upon studies of energy exchange, gas exchange, and chemical kinetics.
The first four chapters offer a preliminary treatment of the applications of biophysical ecology, discussing energy and energy budgets and their applications to plants and animals, and defining radiation laws and units. Succeeding chapters concern the physical environment, covering the topics of radiation, convection, conduction, and evaporation. The spectral properties of radiation and matter are reviewed, along with the geometrical, instantaneous, daily, and annual amounts of both shortwave and longwave radiation. The book concludes with more elaborate analytical methods for the study of photosynthesis in plants and energy budgets in animals, in addition to animal and plant temperature responses.
This text will prove of value to students and environmental researchers from a variety of fields, particularly ecology, agronomy, forestry, botany, and zoology.

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