Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, Amilcare Porporato, Ignacio Rodr Guez-Iturbe

Ecohydrology of Water-Controlled Ecosystems

Soil Moisture and Plant Dynamics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addresses connections between the hydrologic cycle and plant ecosystems for advanced students and researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780521036740
• ISBN-10: 0521036747
• Artikelnr.: 22727581

Inhaltsangabe

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.