Ecology in agriculture

Part 1 Plant responses to their environment: the ecophysiology of crops and their wild relatives, L.E. Jackson and G. Koch photosynthesis, growth rate and biomass allocation, V.P. Gutshick adaptation to diverse agricultural environments - genotypic variation in water use efficiency with crop series, A.G. Condon and A.E. Hall productivity in water-limited environments - crop responses and management of dryland agricultural systems, C-G. Padilla, E. Fereres and F. Orgaz nitrogen as a limiting factour - crop acquisition of ammonium and nitrate, A.J. Bloom tradeoffs in root form and function, D.M. Eissenstat. Part 2 Biotic interactions and processes: the use of biodiversity to restrict plant diseases and some consequences for farmers and society, M.R. Finckh and M.S. Wolfe plant-arthropod interactions in agroecosystems, D.K. Letourneau many little hammers - ecological approaches for management of crop-weed interactions, M. Liebmann and E.R. Gallandt nitrogen use efficiency in row-crop agriculture - crop nitrogen use and soil nitrogen loss, G.P. Robertson interrelationships between soil microbial communities and carbon flow in agroecosystems, K.M. Scow effects of global change on agricultural land use - scaling up from physiological processes to ecosytem dynamics, R. Leemans.