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ICARDA has the serious and urgent responsibility for increasing the
quantity and availability of food in the extensive North
Africa-West Asia region, and therefore must give high priority to
optimising the use of soil water and nitrogen which are considered
to be among the main limiting factors to production. To obtain the
knowledge to further this aim, and with the help of the United
Nations Development Program (UNDP), ICARDA is developing a special
project on 'Increasing the Fixation of Soil Nitrogen and the
Efficiency of Soil Water Use in Rainfed Agricultural Systems in the
Countries of North Africa and Western Asia'. In planning this
project, ICARDA has called on the expertise of leading scientists
in a number of countries who can give the benefit of their
experience, and advise on methods and priorities on which this
specific research can be soundly based and conducted. To provide a
forum for the presentation and exchange of such information,
ICARDA, with the help of UNDP, invited a number of these scientists
to a week-lung workshop at Aleppo in January 1980. This workshop
gave rise to valuable discussions which culminated in several
recommendations by which the project will be guided. The organising
committee comprised Drs. J. Begg (Aus tralia), P. Cooper and D.
Gibbon (lCARDA), P. Dart (Australia), G. J. Koop man and J.
McWilliam (ICARDA Board of Trustees), A. Kassam (England) and P.
Vlek (U.S.A.)."
"Principles of Environmental Physics: Plants, Animals, and the
Atmosphere, 4e, "provides a basis for understanding the complex
physical interactions of plants and animals with their natural
environment. It is the essential reference to provide environmental
and ecological scientists and researchers with the physical
principles, analytic tools, and data analysis methods they need to
solve problems. This book describes the principles by which
radiative energy reaches the earth s surface and reviews the latest
knowledge concerning the surface radiation budget. The processes of
radiation, convection, conduction, evaporation, and carbon dioxide
exchange are analyzed. Many applications of environmental physics
principles are reviewed, including the roles of surface albedo and
atmospheric aerosols in modifying microclimate and climate, remote
sensing of vegetation properties, wind forces on trees and crops,
dispersion of pathogens and aerosols, controls of evaporation from
vegetation and soil (including implications of changing weather and
climate), and interpretation of micrometeorological measurements of
carbon dioxide and other trace gas fluxes.
Presents a unique synthesis of micrometeorology and ecology in its
widest senseDeals quantitatively with the impact of weather on
living systems but also with the interactions between organisms and
the atmosphere that are a central feature of life on earthOffers
numerous worked examples and problems with solutionsProvides many
examples of laboratory and field measurements and their
interpretationIncludes an up-to-date bibliography and review of
recent micrometeorological applications in forestry, ecology,
hydrology, and agriculture"
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
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