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
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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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.