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Overview
This classic text discusses radiation, convection, conduction, and evaporation, surveying methods for the study of photosynthesis in plants and energy budgets in animals — an excellent resource for a variety of fields, particularly ecology, agronomy, forestry, botany, and zoology. "Coherent and comprehensible." — The American Biology Teacher. 174 figures. 30 tables.Synopsis
This affordable paperback contains a reprinted edition of a work first published in 1980, by Springer Verlag. The chapters are divided into two sections which deal with the basic analytical methods and the physical environment and the application of both to the field of ecology. A sample of chapter topics includes energy budgets of plants and animals, radiation laws, solar radiation, spectral characteristics of radiation and matter, conduction and convection, photosynthesis, and temperature and organisms. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR