TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hunt,Allen G.
AU  - Sahimi,Muhammad
ED  - Institute of Physics (Great Britain),
TI  - Networks on networks: role of connectivity in physics of geobiology and geochemistry 
T2  - [IOP release $release]
SN  - 9780750356985
AV  - QH343.4 .H866 2024eb
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK)
PB  - IOP Publishing
KW  - Geobiology
KW  - Geochemistry
KW  - Geophysics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - SCIENCE / Physics / Geophysics
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - "Version: 20241201"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references; 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Background -- 1.2. Fundamental scaling relationships : advection versus diffusion -- 1.3. Summary; 2. Networks in ecological systems -- 2.1. Background : ecological networks -- 2.2. Soil networks -- 2.3. Root networks -- 2.4. Vegetation networks -- 2.5. River networks; 3. Percolation theory, effective-medium approximation, and upscaling -- 3.1. Background -- 3.2. Percolation theory and scaling properties -- 3.3. Structure of percolation clusters -- 3.4. Scaling of the macroscopic conductivity -- 3.5. Water partitioning in the pore space -- 3.6. Accessibility -- 3.7. Finite-size scaling -- 3.8. Critical-path analysis -- 3.9. Effective-medium approximation; 4. Predicting morphological, flow, and transport properties of porous media -- 4.1. Background -- 4.2. Models of porous media -- 4.3. Saturated hydraulic conductivity -- 4.4. Saturation-dependent properties; 5. Solute transport and reaction rate in heterogeneous porous media -- 5.1. Background -- 5.2. Percolation theory for solute transport in heterogeneous porous media -- 5.3. Dispersivity -- 5.4. Distribution of solute arrival times -- 5.5. Scaling of the reaction rate; 6. Water transport and storage -- 6.1. Background -- 6.2. Water transport : Richards equation, Philip infiltration, and invasion percolation -- 6.3. Water storage and its implications for plants; 7. Water transport in plants -- 7.1. Background -- 7.2. Pore scale -- 7.3. Tissue scale -- 7.4. Ecological implications of the safety-efficiency trade-off -- 7.5. Plant scale; 8. Allometric scaling and metabolism -- 8.1. Background -- 8.2. A general model for scaling of metabolic rates -- 8.3. Plant allometry emerging from fractal branching networks -- 8.4. Conduit furcation -- 8.5. Scaling of above-ground and below-ground characteristic sizes -- 8.6. Scaling of size and age -- 8.7. Ecosystem scale; 9. Edaphic constraints : role of soil in vegetation growth -- 9.1. Background -- 9.2. Fundamental predictions based on percolation scaling -- 9.3. Soil data -- 9.4. Vascular plant data -- 9.5. Generalizations and implications; 10. Geomorphological applications of percolation theory : river networks, and weathering and soil depths -- 10.1. Background -- 10.2. River networks -- 10.3. Steady-state versus unsteady-state soil production and the implications for long time scales -- 10.4. The 'mystery' of one meter-deep soils -- 10.5. Soil depth and landslides; 11. Ecohydrological applications : watershed hydrology and water balance -- 11.1. Background -- 11.2. The water balance -- 11.3. Arid lands -- 11.4. Forests and grasslands -- 11.5. Comparison with data -- 11.6. Net primary productivity -- 11.7. Elasticity of streamflow; 12. Hazards to plants and vegetation : disease propagation, deforestration, and forest fires -- 12.1. Background -- 12.2. Improving production of plants with plague susceptibility -- 12.3. Spread of fungi in soil -- 12.4. Pattern of tropical deforestation -- 12.5. Forest fires; 13. Edaphic constraints : revisiting the gaia hypothesis -- 13.1. Background -- 13.2. A percolation model -- 13.3. The data -- 13.4. Quantitative test of Gaia hypothesis using networks; Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers; University-based researchers and the climate change community; Also available in print
N2  - Networks on Networks demonstrates the relevance of the network properties of the pore-space in the soil to the organization of understanding of plant growth, soil formation, river network development, and the water cycle, with the ability to directly relate time scales from seconds to the cycle of supercontinent break-up and assembly (Wilson Cycle). In the process, implications regarding the viability of the strong versus the weak (Earth only acts like a living organism) Gaia hypotheses are addressed. All of this makes Networks on Networks of great interest to those in the climate change community
UR  - https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-5698-5
ER  -