INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
9789400756038
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
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IR
Number
EN-54527
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
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انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Physical and Physiological Forest Ecolog
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
/ edited by Pertti Hari, Kari Heli?╢vaara, Liisa Kulmala
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Dordrecht
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Springer Netherlands :Imprint: Springer,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2013.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
XLII, 534 p. 233 illus., online resource.
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Electronic
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
This important contribution is the result of decades of theoretical thinking and high-value data collection by the University of Helsinki examining forest ecosystems in great detail. The ecology is dominated by a qualitative approach, e.g. species and vegetation zones, but in contrast quantitative thinking is characteristic in the exact sciences of physics and physiology. The editors have bridged the gap between ecology and the exact sciences with an interdisciplinary and quantitative approach. This book recognizes this discrepancy as a hindrance to fruitful knowledge flow between the disciplines, and that physical and physiological knowledge has been omitted from forest ecology to a great extent. Starting with the importance of mass and energy flows in the interactions between forest ecosystems and their environment, the editors and authors offer a strong contribution to the pioneer H. T. Odum and his work from over 50 years ago. This book introduces a holistic synthesis of carbon and nitrogen fluxes in forest ecosystems from cell to stand level during the lifetime of trees. Metabolism and physical phenomena give rise to concentration, pressure and temperature differences that generate the material and energy fluxes between living organisms and their environment. The editors and authors utilize physiological, physical and anatomical background information to formulate theoretical ideas dealing with the effects of the environment and the state of enzymes, membrane pumps and pigments on metabolism. The emergent properties play an important role in the transitions from detailed to more aggregate levels in the ecosystem. Conservation of mass and energy allow the construction of dynamic models of carbon and nitrogen fluxes and pools at various levels in the hierarchy of forest ecosystems. Testing the predictions of these theories dealing with different phenomena in forest ecosystems was completed using the versatile and extensive data measured at SMEAR I and II (Stations for Measuring Ecosystem Atmosphere Relations) and at six additional stands in Finland, and five stands in Estonia. The theories are able to predict fluxes at different levels in the forest ecosystem gaining strong corroboration in the numerous field tests. Finally, the combined results from different hierarchical levels in the forest ecosystem form the physical and physiological theory of forest ecology.
Text of Note
Contents -- 1. Introduction to Physical, Physiological and Causal Forest Ecology -- 2. The Approach to Construct and Test the Theory of Forest Ecology -- 3. Environmental Factors -- 4. Processes in Living Structures -- 5. Fluxes of Carbon, Water and Nutrients -- 6. Structural Regularities in Trees.-7. Dynamics of Carbon and Nitrogen Fluxes and Pools in Forest Ecosystem -- 8. How to Utilize The Knowledge of Causal Responses? -- 9 Station for Measuring Ecosystem-Atmosphere Relations - SMEAR -- 10. The Physical and Physiological Theory of Forest Ecology and its Evaluation -- Index.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Environmental sciences
Science (General)
Ecology
Zoology
Climatic changes
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E-BOOK
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Hari, Pertti.
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Heli?╢vaara, Kari
Kulmala, Liisa
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