Dear all,
Apologies for any cross-posting, but I would like to draw your attention to
the following volume which you might find of interest. Additional details,
together with an order form and a direct link to the publishers' web page
(BIOS, Oxford, UK) can be found on my home page:=20
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~naes/html/professor_howard_griffiths.htm
Just Published
Stable Isotopes=20
integration of biological ecological and geochemical processes
edited by H. Griffiths
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
In this authoritative review, leading international researchers explore the
growing range of applications of stable isotope techniques for probing and
integrating biological processes and palaeoclimatic cycles. The
interdisciplinary approach covers a wide range of issues, opportunities and
developments, setting interactions with plants in the context of water and
nutrient cycles, exchanges with the atmosphere and modelling past and
present climate change.
This important book will appeal to those requiring an overview of the use
of stable isotopes in aquatic, terrestrial and climatic processes and is in
tune with current global concerns. In addition postgraduates and research
scientists will find an extensive guide to more specialist disciplines,
including developing mass spectrometer technologies, compound-specific and
cellular-discrimination processes or whole organism and ecosystem responses.
Contents
Section 1: Isotope sources, analysis and interpretation of organic=
composition
Chapter 1: High precision deuterium and 13C measurement by continuous
flow-IRMS: Organic and position-specific isotope analysis. J.T.Brenna,
H.J.Tobias and T.N.Corso
Chapter 2: Carbon isotope effects on key reactions in plant metabolism and
13C-patterns in natural compounds. H.-L.Schmidt and G.Gleixner
Chapter 3: Interpretation of oxygen isotope composition of leaf material.
G.D.Farquhar, M.M.Barbour and B.K.Henry
Chapter 4: Intramolecular deuterium distributions and plant growth
conditions. J.Schleucher
Section 2. Soils, nutrients and plants
Chapter 5: Stable isotope studies of soil nitrogen. D.W.Hopkins,
R.E.Wheatley and D.Robinson=20
Chapter 6: 15N at Natural Abundance Levels in Terrestrial Vascular Plants:
A precis. L.L.Handley, C.M.Scrimgeour and J.A.Raven
Chapter 7: Variations in fractionation of Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes in
Higher Plants : N metabolism and partitioning of Phloem and Xylem.
T.Yoneyama, H.Fujiwara and J.M.Wilson
Section 3. Photosynthesis, plants and water
Chapter 8: Carbon isotope discrimination in terrestrial plants:
carboxylation and decarboxylations. J.S.Gillon, A.M.Borland, K.G.Harwood,
A.Roberts, M.S.J.Broadmeadow and H.Griffiths
Chapter 9: Carbon isotope discrimination in structural and non-structural
carbohydrates in relation to productivity and adaptation to unfavourable
conditions. E.Brugnoli, A.Scartazza, M.Lauteri, M.C.Monteverdi and C.Maguas
Chapter 10: Oxygen-18 of leaf water: A crossroad for plant associated
isotopic signals. D.Yakir
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Chapter 11: The role of hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes in
understanding water movement along the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum.
T.E.Dawson, R.C.Pausch, H.M.Parker
Section 4. Integration of terrestrial ecosystems
Chapter 12: Oxygen isotope effects during CO2 exchange: from leaf to
ecosystem processes. L.B.Flanagan
Chapter 13: Carbon Isotope discrimination of terrestrial ecosystems.
N.Buchmann, R.J.Brooks, L.B.Flanagan and J.R.Ehleringer
Chapter 14: Assessing Sensitivity to Change in Desert Ecosystems - a Stable
Isotope Approach. J.R.Ehleringer, R.D.Evans and D.Williams=20
Section 5. Integration of marine ecosystems
Chapter 15: Carbon stable isotope fractionation in marine systems: Open
ocean studies and laboratory studies. A.M.Johnston and H.Kennedy
Chapter 16: 15N and the Assimilation of Nitrogen by Marine Phytoplankton:
The Past, Present and Future?=20
N.J.P.Owens and L.J.Watts
Section 6. The immediate past: the Holocene
Chapter 17: Archaeological reconstruction using stable isotopes. =
A.M.Pollard
Chapter 18: Stable isotopes in tree ring cellulose. R.Switsur and
J.Waterhouse
Section 7. Palaeoclimatic reconstructions from Precambrian to Quaternary
Chapter 19: Phylogeny, Palaeoatmospheres and the Evolution of Phototrophy.
J.A.Raven
Chapter 20: Modelling changes in land plant function over the Phanerozoic.
D.J.Beerling and F.I.Woodward
Chapter 21: Carbon isotopes, diets of North American equids, and the
evolution of North American C4 grassland. T.E.Cerling, J.M.Harris and
B.J.McFadden
Chapter 22: Carbon isotopes in lake sediments and peats of last glacial
age: Implications for the global carbon cycle. F.A.Street-Perrott, Y.Huang,
R.A.Perrott and G.Eglinton
Chapter 23: Stable Isotopes, the Hydrologic Cycle and the Terrestrial
Biosphere. J.R.Gat
Chapter 24: The 18O/16O isotope ratio of atmospheric CO2 and its role in
Global Carbon Cycle research.
P.Ciais and H.A.J.Meijer
Price =A375.00/US$ 150.00
Published by BIOS Scientific Publishers, 9, Newtec Place, Magdalen Road,
Oxford OX4 1RE
Telephone +44 (0) 1865 726286 Fax +44 (0) 1865 246823 email:
sales at bios.co.uk
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Howard Griffiths
Dept. of Agricultural and Environmental Science
Ridley Building
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU. UK
Phone: +44 191 222 7893
Fax: +44 191 222 5229
email: howard.griffiths at newcastle.ac.uk
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