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Author:   Paul Hanson ,  J.W. Elwood ,  Stan D. Wullschleger
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2003 ed.
Volume:   166
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.008kg
ISBN:  

9780387003092

ISBN 10:   0387003096
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   12 May 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section 1. Introduction.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Walker Branch Throughfall Displacement Experiment.- Section 2. Carbon-Cycle Processes.- 3. Deciduous Hardwood Photosynthesis: Species Differences, Temporal Patterns, and Responses to Soil-Water Deficits.- 4. Aboveground Autotrophic Respiration.- 5. Dormant-Season Nonstructural Carbohydrate Storage.- Section 3. Water-Cycle Processes.- 6. Sensitivity of Sapling and Mature-Tree Water Use to Altered Precipitation Regimes.- 7. Stomatal Behavior of Forest Trees in Relation to Hydraulic, Chemical, and Environmental Factors.- 8. Leaf Water Potential, Osmotic Potential, and Solute Accumulation of Several Hardwood Species as Affected by Manipulation of Throughfall Precipitation in an Upland Quercus Forest.- 9.180 and 13C in Leaf Litter Versus Tree-Ring Cellulose as Proxy Isotopic Indicators of Climate Change.- Section 4. Decomposition and Soil Carbon Turnover.- 10. Soil Respiration and Litter Decomposition.- 11. Soil Carbon Turnover.- 12. Rates of Coarse-Wood Decomposition.- Section 5. Plant Growth and Mortality.- 13. Tree Seedling Recruitment in a Temperate Deciduous Forest: Interactive Effects of Soil Moisture, Light, and Slope Position.- 14. Response of Understory Tree Seedling Populations to Spatiotemporal Variation in Soil Moisture.- 15. Tree and Sapling Growth and Mortality.- 16. Fine Root Growth Response.- 17. Canopy Production.- Section 6. Response of Other Organisms.- 18. Foliar Chemistry and Herbivory.- 19. Opportunistically Pathogenic Root Rot Fungi: Armillaria Species.- 20. The Influence of Precipitation Change on Spiders as Top Predators in the Detrital Community.- Section 7. Forest Stand-Level Syntheses.- 21. Forest Water Use and the Influence of Precipitation Change.- 22. Estimating the Net Primary and Net Ecosystem Production of a Southeastern Upland Quercus Forest from an 8-Year Biometric Record.- 23. Nutrient Availability and Cycling.- Section 8. Extrapolations.- 24. Long-Term Forest Dynamics and Tree Growth at the TDE Site on Walker Branch Watershed.- 25. Simulated Patterns of Forest Succession and Productivity as a Consequence of Altered Precipitation.- 26. Regional Implications of the Throughfall Displacement Experiment on Forest Productivity.- Appendix. List of Scientific and Common Species Names.

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