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Eagleson, Peter Sturges was born on February 27, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Boal and Helen (Sturges) Eagleson.
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This volume is devoted to the derivation and application of simplified bioclimatic boundary conditions at vegetated land surfaces using natural selection of vegetation characteristics driven by productivity maximization. It investigates the internal control of forest growth by the vertical fluxes of light, CO2, water vapor, and heat within the canopy, as well as the external control offered by the balances of thermal energy and water. Through these means it seeks to determine how the physical characteristics and productivity of forest communities are related to the climates and soils in which they are found. Ecohydrology bridges the fields of hydrology and ecology and proposes new unifying principles derived from the concept of natural selection. It also has potential application in determining the response of vegetation to slow variations in climate and will provide fascinating reading for graduate-level students and research scientists working in ecohydrology, hydroclimatology, forest ecology, and surface water hydrology.
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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series. This is a research monograph and not a textbook. Here I demonstrate analytically how the observed, opposing, latitudinal gradients in the average range and richness of local vascular land plant species are (outside the moist-tropical zone, at least) driven primarily by the local temporal and spatial variability of shortwave radiative flux at the canopy top. (The term "richness" as used here means the local number of different vascular land plant species unlimited by the size of the area sampled.) The hypotheses are simplistic but are nevertheless convincingly accurate in extratropical latitudes when tested against observations over the continental land surfaces of the Northern Hemisphere, the only areas tested here.
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educator civil and environmental engineer
Eagleson, Peter Sturges was born on February 27, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Boal and Helen (Sturges) Eagleson.
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Lehigh University, 1949. Master of Science, Lehigh University, 1952. Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956.
Doctor of Engineering (honorary), Lehigh University, 1998.
Junior engineer, George B. Mebus ( construction engineering), Glenside, Pennsylvania, 1950-1951; teaching assistant, Lehigh University, 1951-1952; research assistant, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1952-1954; member of faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1954-1993; professor сivil engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965-1993; head department сivil engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970-1975; emeritus professor civil and environmental engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1993. Visiting associate California Institute Technology, 1975-1976. Fulbright senior research scholar Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia, 1966-1967.
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Served to Second lieutenant C.E. Army of the United States, 1949-1950. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Meteorological Society (honorary), American Geophysical Union (Robert E. Horton award 1979, Robert E. Horton medal 1988, president 1986-1988, William Bowie medal 1994), International Association Hydrological Sciences (International Hydrology prize 1991). Member National Academy of Engineering, European Geophysical Society (John Dalton medal 1999).
Married Marguerite Anne Partridge, May 28, 1949 (divorced). Children: Helen Marie, Peter Sturges, Jeffrey Partridge. Married Beverly Grossmann Rich, December 27, 1974.