Networks on Networks (eBook)

The physics of geobiology and geochemistry

Allen G Hunt, Stefano Manzoni (Autoren)

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2016
Morgan & Claypool Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-68174-159-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents research into the physical rules that can underlie the behavior of biota, as well as the geochemistry of soil development. It addresses both nutrient and water transport limitations of processes from chemical weathering to vascular plant growth. It attempts to bring order to the question of the extent to which soils can facilitate plant growth, and what limitations on plant sizes, metabolism, occurrence and correlations can be formulated thereby.

Inhalt

Table of Contents: Introduction / Percolation Theory, the Effective-Medium Approximation, and Upscaling / Physical, Hydraulic, and Conduction Properties in Porous Media Using Percolation / Solute Transport in / Soils and Other Heterogeneous Porous Media / Water transport in plants / Allometric scaling and metabolism / Edaphic Constraints: The Role of the Soil in Vegetation Growth / Revisiting the Gaia hypothesis

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2016
• Reihe/Serie: IOP Concise Physics
• Reihe/Serie: IOP Concise Physics
• Reihe/Serie: IOP Concise Physics
• Reihe/Serie: IOP Concise Physics
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Zusatzinfo: With figures in colour and in black and white
• Verlagsort: San Rafael
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Allometric Scaling • Biomaterial • Geobiology • Geochemistry • percolation • soil scientist • water transport in plants
• ISBN-10: 1-68174-159-8 / 1681741598
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68174-159-8 / 9781681741598