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by David M. Gates
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ISBN: 0486428842 Dover Publications Price: $34.95 |
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This classic text discusses radiation, convection, conduction, and evaporation, surveying methods for the study of photosynthesis in plants and energy budgets in animals — an excellent resource for a variety of fields, particularly ecology, agronomy, forestry, botany, and zoology. "Coherent and comprehensible." — The American Biology Teacher. 174 figures. 30 tables.
Unabridged republication of the edition published by Springer-Verlag, New York, 1980.
Table of Contents for Biophysical Ecology
| 1. Introduction | |||||||
| 2. Energy and Energy Budgets | |||||||
| 3. Application to Plants | |||||||
| 4. Application to Animals | |||||||
| 5. Radiation Laws, Units, and Definitions | |||||||
| 6. Solar Radiation | |||||||
| 7. Longwave and Total Radiation | |||||||
| 8. Spectral Characteristics of Radiation and Matter | |||||||
| 9. Conduction and Convection | |||||||
| 10. Evaporation and Transpiration | |||||||
| 11. Energy Budgets of Plants | |||||||
| 12. Energy Budgets of Animals | |||||||
| 13. Time-Dependent Energetics of Animals | |||||||
| 14. Photosynthesis | |||||||
| 15. Temperature and Organisms | |||||||
| Appendixes. References. Index. |