Terrestrial Biosphere-atmosphere Fluxes (Hardcover)

Preface; List of symbols; 1. The general nature of biosphere-atmosphere fluxes; 2. Thermodynamics, work and energy; 3. Chemical reactions, enzyme catalysts and stable isotopes; 4. Control over metabolic fluxes; 5. Modeling the metabolic CO2 flux; 6. Diffusion and continuity; 7. Boundary layer and stomatal control over leaf fluxes; 8. Leaf structure and function; 9. Water transport within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum; 10. Leaf and canopy energy budgets; 11. Canopy structure and radiative transfer; 12. Vertical structure and mixing of the atmosphere; 13. Wind and turbulence; 14. Observations of turbulent fluxes; 15. Modeling of fluxes at the canopy and landscape scales; 16. Soil fluxes of CO2, CH4 and NOx; 17. Fluxes of biogenic volatile compounds between plants and the atmosphere; 18. Stable isotope variants as tracers for studying biosphere-atmosphere exchange; References; Index.