Amilcare Porporato (New Jersey Princeton University), Jun Yin (China Nanjing University)

Ecohydrology

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Produktbeschreibung

This textbook provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to ecohydrology and its applications to biogeochemical cycles, agroecosystems, and human society. It is an invaluable textbook for advanced students in environmental engineering and the natural sciences, and a reference textbook for researchers, professionals, and engineers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1090g
• ISBN-13: 9781108840545
• ISBN-10: 110884054X
• Artikelnr.: 62475486

Autorenporträt

Amilcare Porporato is the Thomas J. Wu '94 Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the High Meadow Environmental Institute at Princeton University. His main research focuses on nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems, hydrometeorology, soil-atmosphere interaction, soil moisture and plant dynamics, soil biogeochemistry, and ecohydrology. He is author of more than 200 peer-reviewed papers. He is co-author of Ecohydrology of Water Controlled Ecosystems (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and co-editor of Dryland Ecohydrology (Springer, 2005). Porporato's awards include the Arturo Parisatti International Price by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti; the Earl Brown II Outstanding Civil Engineering Faculty Award; the Hydrology award from the American Geophysical Union; and the Dalton Medal from the European Geoscience Union.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Physics Background for Ecohydrology
3. The Soil
4. The Plant
5. The Atmosphere
6. Stochastic Tools for Ecohydrology
7. Stochastic Soil Moisture Dynamics
8. From Plant Water Stress to Ecosystem Structure
9. Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles
10. Ecohydrology of Agroecosystems
Index.