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1998 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Heat and Mass Transport

Authors : Gaylon S. Campbell, John M. Norman

Published in: An Introduction to Environmental Biophysics

Publisher: Springer New York

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Life depends on heat and mass transfer between organisms and their surroundings. Such processes as carbon dioxide exchange between leaves and the atmosphere, oxygen uptake by micro-organisms, oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange in the lungs of animals, or convective heat loss from the surfaces of animal coats are fundamental to the existence of life. A thorough understanding of these exchange processes is therefore a necessary part of the study of biophysical ecology.

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Title
Heat and Mass Transport
Authors
Gaylon S. Campbell
John M. Norman
Copyright Year
1998
Publisher
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1626-1_6