一、課程簡介:
1.Introduction
a. Microenvironment
b. Continuity in the biosphere
c. Conservation of energy and mass
d. Models, heterogeneity, and scale
2.Radiation Environment
a. Solar radiation
b. Terrestrial radiation
3.Liquid Water in Organisms and their Environment
a. Water potential and content
b. Water potentials in organisms and their surroundings
c. Relation of liquid- to gas-phase water
4.Heat and Mass Transport
a. Scalar fluxes (molar fluxes)
b. transport equations
c. Resistance and conductance
d. Molecular diffusivity and turbulent transport
5.Plants and Plant Community
a. Leaf temperature
b. Aerodynamic and radiometric temperature of plant canopies
c. transpiration and leaf energy budget
d. Biochemical models for assimilation
e. Control of stomatal conductance
6.The Light Environment of Plant Canopies
a. Leaf area index and light transmission through canopies
b. Calculating the flux density of radiation on leaves in a canopy
c. Remote sensing and canopy temperature
d. Heterogeneous canopies
7.Crop Micrometeorology
a. Profiles equations and stability
b. Measurement of flux above the canopy
c. Resistance analogues
8.Animals, Humans, and their Environment
a. The energy budget concept
b. Latent heat exchange
c. Qualitative analysis of animal thermal response
d. Survival in hot and cold environments

二、課程要求:
1. Homework (30%)
2. Midterm exam (30%)
3. Final exam (40%)

三、參考書目:
An Introduction to Environmental Biophysics (second edition, 1998) by G.S. Campbell and J. M. Norman, Springer-Verlag, Inc., New York.
Other readings:
1. Principles of Environmental Physics (second edition, 1990) by J. L. Monteith and M. Unsworth, Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc., New York.
2. Class Handouts