Plant Canopies: Their Growth, Form and Function (Society for Experimental Biology Seminar Series, Series Number 31) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521395631 ISBN 13: 9780521395632

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

A thorough synthesis of current knowledge about the ways canopies grow, develop, and function. Only recently have advances in simulation modeling in plants begun to emphasize the structural and functional properties of plant canopies in addition to those of the individual constituent leaves. The book considers these properties in terms of the processes--such as transpiration and photosynthesis--by which the canopy and its aerial environment interact. Topics discussed include the meaning of canopy structure, interception of solar radiation, exchange processes, nitrogen nutrition, leaf demography, leaf movement, tillering and branching, and modeling canopy processes from a wide range of plant communities and geographical locations.

About this title

Book Description:

The ways plant canopies grow, develop and function are revealed through an explanation of the processes--such as transpiration and photosynthesis--by which the canopy and its aerial environment interact.

About the Author:

Bruce Marshall was the founding editor of The Reader's Digest General Books program, whose first book, The Reader's Digest Great World Atlas, sold more than 20 million copies in editions around the world. He later founded Marshall Editions and created a wide range of popular thematic atlases. He is also the author of The Real World.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0521395631
• ISBN 13: 9780521395632
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Russell Graham, Marshall Bruce, Jarvis Paul G.