Canopy Photosynthesis: From Basics to Applications, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Series, Vol. 42

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.

Physical Processes in Leaf Canopies.- 1. Light Distribution.- 2. Leaf Energy Balance: Basics, and Modeling from Leaves to Canopies.- Physiological Processes from Leaves to Canopies.- 3. Modeling Leaf Gas Exchange.- 4. Within-canopy Variations in Functional Leaf Traits: Structural, Chemical and Ecological Controls and Diversity of Responses.- 5. Regulation of Leaf Traits in Canopy Gradients.- Whole-plant Processes in Leaf Canopies.- 6. Photomorphogenesis and Photoreceptors.- 7. Forest Canopy Hydraulics.- 8. Simulating Crop Growth and Development using Functional-Structural Plant Modeling.- Assessments of Vegetation Functioning.- 9. Modeling Canopy Photosynthesis.- 10. Observation and Modeling of Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange over Canopy.- 11. Remote Sensing of Vegetation: Potentials, Limitations, Developments and Applications.- 12. Biometric-based Estimations of Net Primary Production (NPP) in Forest Ecosystems.- Application to Ecological and Evolutionary Processes.- 13.  Optimization and Game Theory in Canopy Models.- 14. The Use of Canopy Models to Analyze Light Competition among Plants.- 15. Axiomatic Plant Ecology— Reflections toward a Unified Theory for Plant Productivity.