Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of symbols
- 1 The general nature of biosphere-atmosphere fluxes
- 2 Thermodynamics, work, and energy
- 3 Chemical reactions, enzyme catalysts, and stable isotopes
- 4 Control over metabolic fluxes
- 5 Modeling the metabolic CO2 flux
- 6 Diffusion and continuity
- 7 Boundary layer and stomatal control over leaf fluxes
- 8 Leaf structure and function
- 9 Water transport within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum
- 10 Leaf and canopy energy budgets
- 11 Canopy structure and radiative transfer
- 12 Vertical structure and mixing of the atmosphere
- 13 Wind and turbulence
- 14 Observations of turbulent fluxes
- 15 Modeling of fluxes at the canopy and landscape scales
- 16 Soil fluxes of CO2, CH4, and NOx
- 17 Fluxes of biogenic volatile compounds between plants and the atmosphere
- 18 Stable isotope variants as tracers for studying biosphere-atmosphere exchange
- References
- Index
- Plate Section
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of symbols
- 1 The general nature of biosphere-atmosphere fluxes
- 2 Thermodynamics, work, and energy
- 3 Chemical reactions, enzyme catalysts, and stable isotopes
- 4 Control over metabolic fluxes
- 5 Modeling the metabolic CO2 flux
- 6 Diffusion and continuity
- 7 Boundary layer and stomatal control over leaf fluxes
- 8 Leaf structure and function
- 9 Water transport within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum
- 10 Leaf and canopy energy budgets
- 11 Canopy structure and radiative transfer
- 12 Vertical structure and mixing of the atmosphere
- 13 Wind and turbulence
- 14 Observations of turbulent fluxes
- 15 Modeling of fluxes at the canopy and landscape scales
- 16 Soil fluxes of CO2, CH4, and NOx
- 17 Fluxes of biogenic volatile compounds between plants and the atmosphere
- 18 Stable isotope variants as tracers for studying biosphere-atmosphere exchange
- References
- Index
- Plate Section
Summary
Preface
This book is about interactions – those that occur between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere. Understanding biosphere-atmosphere interactions is a core activity within the discipline of earth system sciences. Many of the most pressing environmental challenges that face society (e.g., the anthropogenic forcing of climate change, urban pollution, the production of sustainable energy sources, and stratospheric ozone depletion), and their remedies, can be traced to biosphere-atmosphere interactions within the earth system. Traditionally, biosphere-atmosphere interactions have been studied within a broad range of conventional disciplines, including biology, the atmospheric and geological sciences, and engineering. In this book we take an integrated, interdisciplinary perspective; one that weaves together concepts and theory from all of the traditional disciplines, and organizes them into a framework that we hope will catalyze a new, synergistic approach to teaching university courses in the earth system sciences.
As we wrote the initial outline for the book, we recognized that the interdisciplinary perspective we sought, in a subtle way, had already emerged; it simply had not been formally collated into a synthetic format. For the past several years, biologists have been attending meetings and workshops traditionally associated with meteorology and geochemistry and conversely meteorologists and geochemists have been attending biology meetings. As a result, newly defined and integrative disciplines have already appeared with names such as “biometeorology,” “bioclimatology,” and “ecohydrology.” Thus, the foundations for the book had already been laid. We simply needed to find the common elements and concepts that permeated these emerging disciplines and pull them together into a single treatment.
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- Terrestrial Biosphere-Atmosphere Fluxes , pp. xi - xiiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014