Scaling-Up : From Cell to Landscape (Hardcover)

1. Tackling large scale problems by scaling up J. Grace, P. R. van Gardingen and J. Luan; 2. Scaling up and down: matching research with requirements in land management and policy through a system-based approach G. R. Squire and G. J. Gibson; 3. Scale and spatial dependence P. M. Atkinson; 4. Scaling remote sensing models C. E. Woodcock, J. B. Collins and D. L. B. Jupp; 5. Scaling of PAR adsorption, photosynthesis and transpiration from leaves to canopy B. Kruijt and S. Ongeri, P. G. Jarvis; 6. Scaling from plant to community and from plant to regional flora J. P. Grime, K. Thompson and C.W. MacGillivray; 7. Variation in stomatal characteristics at the whole-leaf level J. D. B. Weyers, T. Lawson and Z. Y. Peng; 8. Roots: measurement, function and dry matter budgets D. Atkinson and R. Fogel; 9. Producing large-area land cover maps from satellite sensor images: scaling issues and generalization techniques M. J. Barnsley, S. L. Barr and T. Tsang; 10. The carbon balance of tropical forests: from the local to the regional scale P. J. Curran, G. M. Foody, R. M. Lucas, M. Honzak and J. Grace; 11. Issues in the aggregation of surface fluxes from a heterogeneous landscape: from sparse canopies up to the GCM grid scale R. J. Harding, E. M. Blyth and C. M. Taylor; 12. Variability and scaling: matching methods and phenomena B. Marshall, J. W. Crawford and J. R. Porter; 13. Problems with using models to predict regional crop production G. Russell and P. van Gardingen; 14. Scaling behaviour of watershed processes R. B. Lammers, L. E. Band and C. L. Tague; 15. Observation and simulation of energy budgets at the surface of a prairie grassland R. J. Gurney and I. J. Sewell; 16. SiB2, a model for simulation of biological processes within a climate model J. A. Berry, G. J. Collatz, A. S. Denning, G. D. Colello, W. Fu, C. Grivet, D. A. Randall and P. J. Sellers; Index.