Research Catalog

Title

Ecohydrology of water-controlled ecosystems : soil moisture and plant dynamics / Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, Amilcare Porporato.

Author

Rodríguez-Iturbe, Ignacio.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Porporato, Amilcare

Description

xviii, 442 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"Ecohydrology of Water-Controlled Ecosystems addresses the connections between the hydrologic cycle and plant ecosystems. This modern and important topic is treated by building suitable mathematical models of the physics involved and then applying them to study the ecosystem structure and its response to rainfall- and climate-forcing in different parts of the world, including savannas, grasslands, and forests. This book will appeal to advanced students and researchers from a large range of disciplines, including environmental science, hydrology, ecology, earth science, civil and environmental engineering, agriculture, and atmospheric science."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Ecology
• Plant Physiological Phenomena
• Water
• Soil
• Plant-soil relationships
• Plant-water relationships
• Ecohydrology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-438) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

0521819431

LCCN

^^2004046566

OCLC

54758914

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library