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| Frontispiece | ||
| Preface to the second edition | ||
| Preface to the first edition | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Main symbols and abbreviations | ||
| 1 | A quantitative approach to plant-environment interactions | 1 |
| Modelling | 1 | |
| Use of experiments | 6 | |
| 2 | Radiation | 9 |
| Radiation laws | 10 | |
| Radiation measurement | 19 | |
| Radiation in natural environments | 21 | |
| Radiation in plant communities | 30 | |
| Radiation distribution within plant canopies | 32 | |
| Indirect methods for determining canopy structure | 42 | |
| Sample problems | 44 | |
| 3 | Heat, mass and momentum transfer | 46 |
| Measures of concentration | 46 | |
| Molecular transport processes | 48 | |
| Convective and turbulent transfer | 57 | |
| Transfer processes within and above plant canopies | 65 | |
| Sample problems | 71 | |
| 4 | Plant water relations | 72 |
| Physical and chemical properties of water | 72 | |
| Cell water relations | 77 | |
| Measurement of plant water status | 82 | |
| Hydraulic flow | 88 | |
| Liquid phase transport processes | 102 | |
| Sample problems | 104 | |
| 5 | Energy balance and evaporation | 106 |
| Energy balance | 106 | |
| Measures of water vapour concentration | 109 | |
| Evaporation | 112 | |
| Evaporation from plant communities | 120 | |
| Estimating evaporation rates | 124 | |
| Dew | 128 | |
| Sample problems | 130 | |
| 6 | Stomata | 131 |
| Distribution of stomata | 131 | |
| Stomatal mechanics | 133 | |
| Methods of study | 137 | |
| Stomatal response to environment | 145 | |
| Sample problems | 161 | |
| 7 | Photosynthesis and respiration | 163 |
| Photosynthesis | 163 | |
| Respiration | 171 | |
| Measurement and analysis of CO2 exchange | 176 | |
| Chlorophyll fluorescence | 179 | |
| Control of photosynthesis | 185 | |
| Carbon isotope discrimination | 193 | |
| Response to environment | 195 | |
| Photosynthetic models, efficiency and productivity | 203 | |
| Evolutionary and ecological aspects | 211 | |
| Sample problems | 214 | |
| 8 | Light and plant development | 215 |
| Sample problem | 230 | |
| 9 | Temperature | 231 |
| Physical basis of the control of tissue temperature | 231 | |
| Physiological effects of temperature | 239 | |
| Effects of temperature on plant development | 246 | |
| High temperature injury | 250 | |
| Low temperature injury | 251 | |
| Ecological aspects | 256 | |
| Sample problems | 263 | |
| 10 | Drought and drought tolerance | 264 |
| Plant water deficits and physiological processes | 264 | |
| Drought tolerance | 269 | |
| Further analysis of water use efficiency | 279 | |
| Crop water stress index | 293 | |
| 11 | Wind, altitude, carbon dioxide and atmospheric pollutants | 296 |
| Wind | 296 | |
| Altitude | 306 | |
| Greenhouse effect | 313 | |
| Atmospheric pollutants | 324 | |
| 12 | Physiology and yield improvement | 332 |
| Variety improvement | 334 | |
| Modelling and determination of crop ideotype | 339 | |
| Development of screening tests | 344 | |
| Examples of applications | 346 | |
| Appendixes | 355 | |
| References | 377 | |
| Index | 413 |
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