Table of Contents

Frontispiece; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition Main symbols and abbreviations; 1. A quantitative approach to plant-environment interactions; 2. Radiation; 3. Heat, mass and momentum transfer; 4. Plant-water relations; 5. Energy balance and evaporation; 6. Stomata; 7. Photosynthesis and respiration; 8. Light and plant development; 9. Temperature; 10. Drought and drought tolerance; 11. Wind, altitude, carbon dioxide and atmospheric pollutants; 12. Physiology and yield improvement; Appendices; References; Index.

Reviews

From the reviews of the first edition... "...a first-class introduction to quantitative environmental physiology..." M.H. Unsworth, New Phytologist "...plant physiologists, agronomists, ecologists, and others interested in whole plants can all find much of value here." David A. Smith, American Scientist "...an excellent book which all agricultural meteorologists would benefit from using." M.N. Hough, Meteorological Magazine "This book will serve modelers and quantitative physiologists admirably. As a source of information and conceptual understanding it attains the highest standards in topical balance, rigor, logical organization, and guidance to the literature...At a time when endless, uninterpreted, and poorly connected lists of effects often pass for quantitative studies in biology, Plants and Microclimates stands as a fine model." Vincent P. Gutschick, Mathematical Biosciences From the reviews of the second edition... "...I would recommend the text for a course geared towards advanced undergraduates and graduate students." T. R. Baker, Ecology "...a useful quantitative approach to environmental plant physiology...The approach boils down to the biophysics of environmental factors that affect plant growth and development (i.e., radiation, temperature, water relations, energy balance, and mass transfer) and the nature of plant or canopy response to them." Cary Au Mitchell, The Quarterly Review of Biology