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Principles of Environmental Physics: Plants, Animals, and the Atmosphere, 4e, provides a basis for understanding the complex physical interactions of plants and animals with their natural environment. It is the essential reference to provide environmental and ecological scientists and researchers with the physical principles, analytic tools, and data analysis methods they need to solve problems. This book describes the principles by which radiative energy reaches the earth's surface and reviews the latest knowledge concerning the surface radiation budget. The processes of radiation, convection, conduction, evaporation, and carbon dioxide exchange are analyzed. Many applications of environmental physics principles are reviewed, including the roles of surface albedo and atmospheric aerosols in modifying microclimate and climate, remote sensing of vegetation properties, wind forces on trees and crops, dispersion of pathogens and aerosols, controls of evaporation from vegetation and soil (including implications of changing weather and climate), and interpretation of micrometeorological measurements of carbon dioxide and other trace gas fluxes.

General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Geophysics --- Microclimat --- microclimate --- Absorption --- Transfert de masse --- Mass transfer --- Dioxyde de carbone --- carbon dioxide --- Dioxyde de soufre --- Sulphur dioxide --- Convection --- Ventilation --- Biophysics --- Ecology --- 536 --- 57.043 --- 574.2 --- 574.2 Organisms and environment. Habitat. Preferendum --- Organisms and environment. Habitat. Preferendum --- 536 Heat. Thermodynamics --- Heat. Thermodynamics --- 57.043 Physical and other mechanical factors. --- Physical and other mechanical factors. --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Biological physics --- Medical sciences --- Physics --- Physical and other mechanical factors --- Biophysics. --- Ecology. --- Physique environnementale --- Micrometeorologie --- Open-top chamber