Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations
Editorial Reviews
Review
"...perfect foundation for university courses on the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum...a powerful reference tool for plant and soil scientists alike."
- Malcom J. Morrison, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, ECORC, in Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
"This book will appeal to both students and practising researchers....There is something for everyone in this book." - Brent Clothier, HortResearch, New Zealand
"This is a book that will become one of my standard references, close to hand on my bookshelves." - Michael Unsworth, Oregon State University, author of Principles of Environmental Physics
"Students and researchers...will greatly benefit, for years to come, from this exceptionally well presented and illustrated book." - M. Hossein Behboudian, Massey University, New Zealand
"A very valuable and innovating discourse." - Wilfried Ehlers, Institut fur Pflanzenbau und Pflanzenzuchtung Universitat Goettingen, Germany
"[This book]...is a compressive review of our current ideology of water movement and storage within plants and soil." -James K. McCarron, Adams State College, Colorado
Book Description
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, stomatal porometry, as well as newer methods of tension infiltrometry; time domain reflectometry are examined. Principles are clearly presented with the aid of diagrams, anatomical figures, and images of instrumentation. An added feature includes short biographies of important scientists at the end of each chapter.
Intended for graduate students in plant and soil science programs, this book also serves as a useful reference for agronomists, plant ecologists, and agricultural engineers
* Principles are presented in an easy-to-understand style
* Heavily illustrated with more than 200 figures; diagrams are professionally drawn
* Anatomical figures show root, stem, leaf, and stomata
* Figures of instruments show how they work
* Book is carefully referenced, giving sources for all information
* Struggles and accomplishments of scientists who developed the theories are given in short biographies.
Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations,M.B. Kirkham,Academic Press,0124097510,Applied Sciences,Groundwater flow,Life Sciences - Biochemistry,Life Sciences - Botany,Plant-soil relationships,Plant-water relationships,Science,Science/Mathematics,Irrigation,Science / Environmental Science
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