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Biophysical Ecology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980)
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Biophysical Ecology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980)
Series: Springer Advanced Texts in Life Sciences
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The objective of this book is to make analytical methods available
to students of ecology. The text deals with concepts of energy
exchange, gas exchange, and chemical kinetics involving the
interactions of plants and animals with their environments. The
first four chapters are designed to show the applications of
biophysical ecology in a preliminary, sim plified manner. Chapters
5-10, treating the topics of radiation, convec tion, conduction,
and evaporation, are concerned with the physical environment. The
spectral properties of radiation and matter are thoroughly
described, as well as the geometrical, instantaneous, daily, and
annual amounts of both shortwave and longwave radiation. Later
chapters give the more elaborate analytical methods necessary for
the study of photosynthesis in plants and energy budgets in
animals. The final chapter describes the temperature responses of
plants and animals. The discipline of biophysical ecology is
rapidly growing, and some important topics and references are not
included due to limitations of space, cost, and time. The
methodology of some aspects of ecology is illustrated by the
subject matter of this book. It is hoped that future students of
the subject will carry it far beyond its present status. Ideas for
advancing the subject matter of biophysical ecology exceed
individual capacities for effort, and even today, many
investigators in ecology are studying subjects for which they are
inadequately prepared. The potential of modern science, in the
minds and hands of skilled investigators, to of the interactions of
organisms with their advance our understanding environment is
enormous."
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