Principles of instrumentation for physiological ecology / Arnold J. Bloom -- Field data acquisition / Robert W. Pearcy -- Water in the environment / Philip W. Rundel and Wesley M. Jarrell -- Measurement of wind speed near vegetation / John Grace -- Soil nutrient availability / Dan Binkley and Peter Vitousek -- Radiation and light measurements / Robert W. Pearcy -- Temperature and energy budgets / James R. Ehleringer -- Measurement of transpiration and leaf conductance / Robert W. Pearcy, E.-Detlef Schulze and Reiner Zimmermann -- Plant water status, hydraulic resistance and capacitance / Roger T. Koide ... [et al.] -- Approaches to studying nutrient uptake, use and loss in plants / F. Stuart Chapin III and Keith Van Cleave -- Photosynthesis / Christopher B. Field, J. Timothy Ball and Joseph A. Berry -- Crassulacean acid metabolism / C. Barry Osmond, William W. Adams III and Stanley D. Smith -- Stable isotopes / James R. Ehleringer and C. Barry Osmond -- Canopy structure / John M. Norman and Gaylon S. Campbell -- Growth, carbon allocation and cost of plant tissues / Nona R. Chiariello, Harold A. Mooney and Kimberlyn Williams.