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Principles of soil and plant water relations /
Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations combines biology and physics to show how water moves through the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. This text explores the instrumentation and the methods used to measure the status of water in soil and plants. The basic methods of tensiometry, pyschrometry...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Elsevier Academic Press,
�2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Definitions of physical units and the international system
- Structure and properties of water
- Tensiometers
- Soil-water terminology and applications
- Static water in soil
- Water Movement in saturated soil
- Field capacity, wilting point, available water, and the nonlimiting water range
- Penetrometer measurements
- Measurement of oxygen diffusion rate
- Infiltration
- Pore volume
- Time domain reflectometry to measure volumetric soil water content
- Root anatomy and Poiseuille's law for water flow in roots
- Gardner's equation for water movement to plant roots
- Measurement of water potential with thermocouple psychrometers
- Measurement of water potential with pressure chambers
- Stem anatomy and measurement of osmotic potential and turgor potential using pressure-volume curves
- The ascent of water in plants
- Electrical analogues for water movement through the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum
- Leaf anatomy and leaf elasticity
- Stomata and measurement of stomatal resistance
- Solar radiation, black bodies, heat budget, and radiation balance
- Measurement of canopy temperature with infrared thermometers
- Stress-degree-day concept and crop-water-stress index
- Potential evapotranspiration
- Water and yield.