1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910712385803321

Titolo

SmwrBase : an R package for managing hydrologic data, version 1.1.1

Pubbl/distr/stampa

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey

Reston, Virginia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911018871803321

Autore

Stanghellini Cecilia

Titolo

Greenhouse horticulture : Technology for optimal crop production, second edition / / Cecilia Stanghellini, Bert Van 't Ooster, and Ep Heuvelink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill | Wageningen Academic, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9789004697041

9789004697034

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 pages)

Disciplina

635.9/823

Soggetti

Greenhouse gardening

Greenhouse management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapters: -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Crop as a production machine -- 3: Radiation, greenhouse cover and temperature -- 4: Properties of humid air and physics of air treatment -- 5: Ventilation and mass balance -- 6: Crop transpiration and humidity in greenhouses -- 7: Crop response to environmental factors -- 8: Heating in climate-controlled greenhouses -- 9: Cooling and dehumidification -- 10: Supplementary lighting -- 11: Carbon dioxide supply -- 12: Managing the shoot environment -- 13: Root zone management: how to limit emissions --



14: Vertical farms -- 15: The future.

Sommario/riassunto

Greenhouse horticulture' is an easy-to-read textbook for all those interested in protected cultivation, from university students and teachers to professional advisers in the field and managers of horticultural companies. This book provides an integrated approach to crop growth and development and the technical aspects of greenhouse cultivation and climate management. It combines an analysis of the relationship between crop production and ambient climate with an explanation of the processes that determine the climate in a protected environment. With the ability to modify the environment comes the need for growers to strike a balance between the costs and benefits of technology. This book outlines the methods and gives several examples of how to make 'optimal' choices about technology. Sustainable management of shoot and root environment is discussed, as well as the pros and cons of vertical farming. The processes addressed in this book, like crop growth, energy balance and mass exchange, apply to any kind of greenhouse. Therefore, in spite of the word 'technology', this is not a book about high-tech greenhouses only.