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Greenhouse Ecosystems
- 1st Edition, Volume 20
- Editors: G. Stanhill, H.Z. Enoch
- Language: English
This book - the first, integrated treatment of the greenhouse ecosystem - consists of sixteen chapters by an international list of expert authorities and is divided into four… Read more
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The first section consists of four chapters describing greenhouses, their history and geographical distribution; their mechanical structures, light - transmitting cladding and environmental control mechanisms; the way in which these modify the greenhouse's aerial microclimate and root environments.
The second section contains six chapters dealing with the biological contents of greenhouses; the most widely grown edible fruit and salad crops, ornamental flower and foliage crops; the diseases and the pests attacking these crops and the growers cultivating them.
The third section has four chapters dealing with the flows of energy, carbon, water and nutrients within and across the boundaries of the greenhouse.
The two chapters of the fourth section describe the dynamic simulation models which have been used to calculate the potential yields of greenhouse crops and to optimize their management.
The volume's many-faceted approach makes it a unique information resource for those concerned with research and analysis of greenhouse management as well as the ecology of this most intensive and controlled of agroecosystems.
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 20
- Published:
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
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G. Stanhill
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H.Z. Enoch
From 1959-63 he worked at The Department of Soil Physics and Agrometeorology (Hydroteknisk Laboratorium), The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen and since 1963 to the present, at The Institute of Soils and Water, The Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan, Israel.
From 1969 to 74 he was the 'Israeli counter-part-Biologist' to an FAO project at Bet Dagan, Israel, which built a greenhouse research center with about ten glass and/or plastic clad greenhouses and nine 50m3 large phytotrons equipped for gas-exchange measurements and with weighing lysimeters.
H. Zvi Enoch has been a visiting scientist at The Department of Plant Physiology, Horticulture Research International (formerly The Glass House Crops Research Institute) at Littlehampton, West Sussex, England, UK, 1970-71; The Department of Agricultural Engineering, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 1978; lecturer at the Graduate School of Forestry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, 1980-81; Visiting Research Fellow at The Department of Ecology at Connecticut Agricultural Research Station, New Haven, CT, USA 1981; in 1986 he was a visiting scientist (Directeur de Recherche) at the Department of Ecology at The University of Paris, Orsay, France and in 1992 and 1993 visiting scientist at The Division of Biological Sciences at Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, UK. During 1996 he was visiting scientist at The Institute of Botany, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark, and 1996-97 visiting scientist to The Mae Fah Luang Foundation in Doi Tung and Bangkok, Thailand; in 1997 he was visiting scientist to The Institute of Agrome