Forests at the land-atmosphere interface /

• Corporate Author: Forests at the Land-Atmosphere Interface
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2004.
• Subjects: Carbon sequestration > Congresses.; Forest management > Congresses.; Stomata > Congresses.; Forest meteorology > Congresses.; Forestry Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Plant Water Relations.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Silviculture and Forest Management.; Meteorology and Climate.; Mathematics and Statistics.; Techniques and Methodology.; Atmosphere.; Canopy.; Canopy penetration.; Carbon.; Carbon sequestration.; Forest management.; Forest policy.; Forestry.; Forests.; Light penetration.; Meteorology.; Models.; Neural networks.; Plant water relations.; Remote sensing.; Solar radiation.; Stomata.; Transpiration.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 17 chapters on the biophysical processes occurring at the interface between forest ecosystems and the atmosphere. It brings together topics such as the role of stomata in regulating water fluxes to the atmosphere, radiation penetration into forest canopies, forest meteorology, mes...

Table of Contents:

• Stomatal Control of Transpiration : a Major Dilemma 100 Years Ago / T.A. Mansfield
• Stomata as Part of the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum / R. Leuning, A. Tuzet and A. Perrier
• Effects of Elevated CO2 Concentration on Stomatal Conductance and Respiration of Beech Leaves in Darkness / D. Overdieck
• Top-down Models and Flux Measurements are Complementary Methods of Estimating Carbon Sequestration by Forests :Illustrations using the 3-PG model / J. Landsberg and R.H. Waring
• The Effects of Forests on Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes / A.J. Dolman, M.K. van der Molen, H.W. ter Maat and R.W.A. Hutjes
• The Diurnal Cycle over Land / A.K. Betts
• Medium- and Long-term Ecosystem Processes : Implications at the Forest-Atmosphere Interface / F. Berninger
• A MAESTRO Retrospective / B. Medlyn
• Thermal Radiation, Canopy Temperature and Evaporation from Forest Canopies / H.G. Jones, N. Archer and E. Rotenberg
• Forest-Air Exchange in Non-ideal Conditions : the Role of Horizontal Flux and its Divergence / X. Lee
• Review of Forest Evaporation Studies, Primarily in the United Kingdom / J.B. Stewart
• Scaling the Estimate of Maximum Canopy Conductance from Patch to Region and Comparison of Aircraft Measurements / Y.-P. Wang, R. Leuning, P. Isaac and G. Zhou
• Land Sinks : the Kyoto Process and Scientific Implications / M.G.R. Cannell
• Spatial and Temporal Assessment of Biospheric Carbon Fluxes at a Continental Scale by Neural-network Optimization / D. Papale and R. Valentini
• Scaling Carbon Uptake from Leaves to Canopies : Insights from Two Forests with Contrasting Properties / D. Whitehead, A.S. Walcroft, K.L. Griffin, D.T. Tissue, M.H. Turnbull, V. Engel, K.J. Brown and W.S.F. Schuster
• Links between Science and Forest Management, as Illustrated by a Model of Branch Development / J.C. Grace
• Thoughts on Forest Science / D.C. Malcolm.