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Canopy Photosynthesis: From Basics to Applications

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Editors:
  1. Kouki Hikosaka

    1. Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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  2. Ülo Niinemets

    1. Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences Institute of Agricultural and, Tartu, Estonia

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  3. Niels P.R. Anten

    1. Crop and Weed Ecology, Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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  • Physical, chemical and biological processes in plant canopies are described from basics to applications
  • The chapters of the book describe the basic background of the specific topic and provides equations that are indispensable for its quantitative understanding
  • The book is designed primarily for graduate students and beginning scientists interested in measuring and modeling vegetation performance

Part of the book series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration (AIPH, volume 42)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiii
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  2. Physical Processes in Leaf Canopies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Light Distribution

      • Jan Goudriaan
      Pages 3-22

    3. Leaf Energy Balance: Basics, and Modeling from Leaves to Canopies

      • Vincent P. Gutschick
      Pages 23-58

  3. Physiological Processes from Leaves to Canopies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Modeling Leaf Gas Exchange

      • Kouki Hikosaka, Ko Noguchi, Ichiro Terashima
      Pages 61-100

    3. Within-Canopy Variations in Functional Leaf Traits: Structural, Chemical and Ecological Controls and Diversity of Responses

      • Ülo Niinemets
      Pages 101-141

    4. Regulation of Leaf Traits in Canopy Gradients

      • Thijs L. Pons
      Pages 143-168

  4. Whole-Plant Processes in Leaf Canopies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Photomorphogenesis and Photoreceptors

      • Mieke de Wit, Ronald Pierik
      Pages 171-186

    3. Forest Canopy Hydraulics

      • David R. Woodruff, Frederick C. Meinzer, Katherine A. McCulloh
      Pages 187-217

    4. Simulating Crop Growth and Development Using Functional-Structural Plant Modeling

      • Jochem B. Evers
      Pages 219-236

  5. Assessments of Vegetation Functioning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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    2. Modeling Canopy Photosynthesis

      • Kouki Hikosaka, Tomo’omi Kumagai, Akihiko Ito
      Pages 239-268

    3. Observation and Modeling of Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange Over Canopy

      • Tomo’omi Kumagai
      Pages 269-287

    4. Remote Sensing of Vegetation: Potentials, Limitations, Developments and Applications

      • Mathias Disney
      Pages 289-331

    5. Biometric-Based Estimations of Net Primary Production (NPP) in Forest Ecosystems

      • Toshiyuki Ohtsuka, Nobuko Saigusa, Yasuo Iimura, Hiroyuki Muraoka, Hiroshi Koizumi
      Pages 333-351

  6. Application to Ecological and Evolutionary Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 353-353
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    2. Optimization and Game Theory in Canopy Models

      • Niels P. R. Anten
      Pages 355-377

    3. The Use of Canopy Models to Analyze Light Competition Among Plants

      • Niels P. R. Anten, Lammert Bastiaans
      Pages 379-398
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About this book

The last 30 years has seen the development of increasingly sophisticated models that quantify canopy carbon exchange. These models are now essential parts of larger models for prediction and simulation of crop production, climate change, and regional and global carbon dynamics. There is thus an urgent need for increasing expertise in developing, use and understanding of these models. This in turn calls for an advanced, yet easily accessible textbook that summarizes the “canopy science” and introduces the present and the future scientists to the theoretical background of the current canopy models.

This book presents current knowledge of functioning of plant canopies, models and strategies employed to simulate canopy function, and the significance of canopy architecture, physiology and dynamics in ecosystems, landscape and biosphere.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Kouki Hikosaka

  • Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences Institute of Agricultural and, Tartu, Estonia

    Ülo Niinemets

  • Crop and Weed Ecology, Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Niels P.R. Anten

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Canopy Photosynthesis: From Basics to Applications

  • Editors: Kouki Hikosaka, Ülo Niinemets, Niels P.R. Anten

  • Series Title: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7291-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7290-7Published: 29 December 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1326-7Published: 30 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7291-4Published: 17 December 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1572-0233

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0102

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXIII, 428

  • Number of Illustrations: 69 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Plant Physiology

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