Terrestrial Biosphere-Atmosphere Fluxes

Russell Monson is Louise Foucar Marshall Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses on photosynthetic metabolism, the production of biogenic volatile organic compounds and plant water relations from the scale of chloroplasts to the globe. He has received numerous awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Fulbright Senior Fellowship, and was also appointed Professor of Distinction in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado. Professor Monson is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Oecologia, has served on advisory boards for numerous national and international organisations and projects, and has over 200 peer-reviewed publications. Dennis Baldocchi is a professor of Biometeorology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on physical, biological and chemical processes that control trace gas and energy exchange between vegetation and the atmosphere and the micrometeorology of plant canopies. Awards received include the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biometeorology from the American Meteorological Society (2009) and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring (2011), amongst others from the University of California. Professor Baldocchi is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and is a member of advisory boards for national and international organisations and projects. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences and has over 200 peer-reviewed publications.

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.