Ecohydrology of Water-Controlled Ecosystems - Soil Moisture and Plant Dynamics

Zusammenfassung This book addresses the connections between the hydrologic cycle and plant ecosystems. It will appeal to advanced students and researchers from a large range of disciplines! including environmental science! hydrology! ecology! earth science! civil and environmental engineering! agriculture! and atmospheric science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Gabriel Katul; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Stochastic soil moisture dynamics and water balance; 3. Crossing properties of soil moisture dynamics; 4. Plant water stress; 5. Applications to natural ecosystems; 6. Coupled dynamics of photosynthesis, transpiration and soil water balance: from hourly to growing-season time scale; 7. Plant strategies and water use; 8. Seasonal and interannual fluctuations in soil moisture dynamics; 9. Spatial scale issues in soil moisture dynamics; 10. Hydrologic controls on nutrient cycles; 11. Hydrologic variability and ecosystem structure; References; Species index; Subject index.

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• Authors: Amilcare Porporato, Porporato Amilcare, Ignacio Rodr Guez-Iturbe, Ignacio Rodr¿ez-Iturbe, Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio Porporato Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2007
• EAN: 9780521036740
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03674-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Print on demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Marine Biology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Limnology, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Plant Ecology, Limnology (inland waters), Hydrobiology, Soil science, sedimentology, Botany and plant sciences, Limnology (Freshwater), Sedimentology and pedology