Human activity is causing a global change in plant environment that includes a significant
increase in the number and intensity of different stress factors. These include combinations …

Hormones produced by glands in the endocrine system and neurotransmitters produced by
the nervous system control many bodily functions. The concentrations of these molecules in …

Hyperspectral data (Table 1) is acquired as continuous narrowbands (eg, each band with 1
to 10 nanometer or nm bandwidths) over a range of electromagnetic spectrum (eg, 400 …

Humans negatively influence Earth ecosystems and biodiversity causing global warming,
climate change as well as man-made pollution. Recently, the number of different stress …

Here we present a new terrestrial biosphere model (the Integrated Biosphere Simulator‐
IBIS) which demonstrates how land surface biophysics, terrestrial carbon fluxes, and global …

The predominant emphasis on harmful effects of environmental stresses on growth of woody
plants has obscured some very beneficial effects of such stresses. Slowly increasing …

Increased atmospheric CO2 often but not always leads to large decreases in leaf
conductance. Decreased leaf conductance has important implications for a number of …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has smoothly penetrated in a number of monitoring and control
applications including agriculture. However, research efforts toward low-power sensing …

Projections of global warming from General Circulation Models (GCMs) are now familiar to
both scientists and nonscientists. Knowing, however, that the mean global temperature will …

We dedicate this book to professor CT de Wit (1924-1993) who initiated Production Ecology
as a school of thought at the Wageningen Agricultural Univer sity (see Rabbinge et at …