David M. Gates
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American ecologist, physicist and botanist
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David M. Gates's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Botany University of California, Berkeley
Why Is David M. Gates Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David M. Gates was an American ecologist who sounded early warnings that fossil fuels, fertilizers and pesticides posed a potentially fatal threat to the global environment. Gates was a physicist and ecologist, professor emeritus of biology, University of Michigan. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Michigan.
David M. Gates's Published Works
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Published Works
- Spectral Properties of Plants (1965) (1262)
- THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA OF ANIMALS WITH ENVIRONMENT (1969) (779)
- Plant-Water Relationships (1967) (628)
- Transpiration and Leaf Temperature (1968) (402)
- Energy Exchange in the Biosphere (1963) (311)
- Heat-Transfer Analysis of Animals: Some Implications for Field Ecology, Physiology, and Evolution (1975) (275)
- ENERGY, PLANTS, AND ECOLOGY' (1965) (221)
- Man and his thermal environment (1985) (218)
- Spectral Distribution of Solar Radiation at the Earth's Surface. (1966) (188)
- Leaf Temperature and Transpiration1 (1964) (168)
- The Reflectivity of Deciduous Trees and Herbaceous Plants in the Infrared to 25 Microns. (1952) (154)
- A Mathematical Model for Body Temperatures of Large Reptiles: Implications for Dinosaur Ecology (1973) (152)
- Leaf Temperatures of Desert Plants (1968) (146)
- The Energy Budget of a Lizard on a Tree Trunk (1967) (123)
- Perspectives of Biophysical Ecology (2012) (122)
- Wind-tunnel modelling of convection of heat between air and broad leaves of plants (1968) (122)
- HEATED TAXIDERMIC MOUNTS: A MEANS OF MEASURING THE STANDARD OPERATIVE TEMPERATURE AFFECTING SMALL ANIMALS' (1981) (101)
- Climate change and forests. (1990) (99)
- Climate Changes and Its Biological Consequences (1995) (96)
- Leaf temperature and energy exchange (1962) (89)
- THE TEMPERATURE OF TREE TRUNKS—CALCULATED AND OBSERVED (1966) (87)
- Altitudinal Zonation of Chipmunks (Eutamias): Energy Budgets (1971) (83)
- Physical and physiological properties of plants. (1970) (82)
- Atlas of Energy Budgets of Plant Leaves. (1972) (80)
- A model for gaseous pollutant sorption by leaves. (1973) (77)
- Transpiration and Energy Exchange (1966) (70)
- Interactive effects of light, leaf temperature, CO2 and O2 on photosynthesis in soybean (1985) (70)
- Radiant Energy, Its Receipt and Disposal (1965) (69)
- The Biophysical Ecology of the Alligator: Heat Energy Budgets and Climate Spaces (1972) (67)
- RADIATION AND CONVECTION IN CONIFERS (1964) (66)
- Energy-Exchange Analysis of the Belding Ground Squirrel and Its Habitat (1974) (60)
- Infrared Transmission of the Atmosphere to Solar Radiation (1963) (60)
- Energy Exchange and Transpiration (1976) (59)
- Gas exchange in Quercus rubra (northern red oak) during a drought: analysis of relations among photosynthesis, transpiration, and leaf conductance. (1990) (51)
- Effects of Temperature and Light on Photosynthesis of Dominant Species of a Northern Hardwood Forest (1988) (51)
- Development of a photosynthesis model with an emphasis on ecological applications (1976) (50)
- Effects of Nitrate Application on Amaranthus powellii Wats. : III. Optimal Allocation of Leaf Nitrogen for Photosynthesis and Stomatal Conductance. (1985) (49)
- Springtime recovery of photosynthetic activity of white pine in Michigan (1988) (47)
- Products of anaerobic phloroglucinol degradation by Coprococcus sp. Pe15. (1976) (47)
- Development of a photosynthesis model with an emphasis on ecological applications (1980) (47)
- RADIATION AND CONVECTION FOR PONDEROSA PINE (1965) (46)
- CONVECTION PHENOMENA FROM PLANTS IN STILL AIR (1963) (46)
- Energy Exchange and Ecology (1968) (42)
- DIFFUSION RESISTANCE IN LEAVES AS RELATED TO THEIR STOMATAL ANATOMY AND MICRO‐STRUCTURE (1964) (40)
- Non‐stomatal limitation of CO2 assimilation in three tree species during natural drought conditions (1986) (39)
- Effects of Nitrate Application on Amaranthus powellii Wats. : I. Changes in Photosynthesis, Growth Rates, and Leaf Area. (1985) (37)
- Water relations of forest trees (1991) (35)
- Line Parameters and Computed Spectra for Water Vapor Bands at 2.7 mu (1964) (35)
- Analysis of gas exchange in seedlings of Acer saccharum: integration of field and laboratory studies (1985) (35)
- Short-Term Effects of CO(2) on Gas Exchange of Leaves of Bigtooth Aspen (Populus grandidentata) in the Field. (1984) (34)
- The Energy Environment of Plants (1966) (33)
- A comparison of four methods for determining leaf area index in successional hardwood forests (1985) (32)
- Remote Sensing for the Biologist (1967) (31)
- Heat transfer in plants. (1965) (30)
- Energy Budgets of Plants (1980) (30)
- Soil respiration of five aspen stands in northern lower Michigan (1991) (30)
- Development of a photosynthesis model with an emphasis on ecological applications (1976) (29)
- The flow of energy in the biosphere. (1971) (27)
- Man and his environment : climate (1971) (27)
- Transpiration Resistance of Plants (1967) (26)
- Near Infrared Atmospheric Transmission to Solar Radiation (1960) (26)
- An Energy Budget Approach to the Study of Water Loss in Cryptogams (1970) (26)
- Energy and Ecology (1985) (25)
- Computed transmission spectra for 2.7-micron H2O band (1963) (23)
- Ecophysiological Effects of Changing Atmospheric CO2 Concentration (1983) (22)
- The Ecology of an Elfin Forest in Puerto Rico, 4. Transpiration Rates and Temperatures of Leaves in Cool Humid Environment (1969) (21)
- Toward understanding Ecosystems (1968) (21)
- Convection Heat Transfer From Broad Leaves of Plants (1968) (21)
- Distribution of active gene sequences: a subset associated with tightly bound chromosomal proteins. (1980) (20)
- INFRARED DETERMINATION OF PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR IN A VERTICAL COLUMN OF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE (1956) (19)
- Solubility of gases and the temperature dependency of whole leaf affinities for carbon dioxide and oxygen: an alternative perspective. (1979) (19)
- An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Skeletal Frequencies of the Paraffin Hydrocarbons and the Far Infra‐Red Spectrum of Carbon Tetrachloride (1949) (17)
- Effects of Nitrate Application on Amaranthus powellii Wats : II. Stomatal Response to Vapor Pressure Difference is Consistent with Optimization of Stomatal Conductance. (1985) (17)
- Sensing biological environments with a portable radiation thermometer. (1968) (17)
- Infrared Reflectance of Evaporated Metal Films (1958) (17)
- A model describing photosynthesis in terms of gas diffusion and enzyme kinetics (1971) (17)
- Linearized heat transfer relations in biology. (1974) (16)
- Body Size, Insulation, and Optimum Body Temperatures of Homeotherms (1975) (16)
- Winter Thermal Radiation Studies in Yellowstone Park: Infrared reveals surface phenomena of hot springs and temperatures of vegetation and Old Faithful geyser. (1961) (16)
- Introduction: Biophysical Ecology (1975) (16)
- Pipelines and Permafrost: Science in a Cold Climate (1986) (16)
- A Starting Point (1967) (16)
- Some field methods for obtaining meaningful leaf diffusion resistances and transpiration rates. (1970) (16)
- An Analytical Model of Photosynthetic Response of Aquatic Plants to Inorganic Carbon and pH (1981) (14)
- Basic Research in Europe (1958) (13)
- Infrared Transmission of Clouds (1960) (12)
- Evaporation and Transpiration (1980) (12)
- Energy Exchange in Plant Canopies (1971) (12)
- Energetics of Occupied Hummingbird Nests (1975) (11)
- Effect of photosynthetic photon flux density on carboxylation efficiency. (1987) (11)
- Animal climates (where animals must live). (1970) (11)
- DNA-binding activity of tightly-bound nonhistone chromosomal proteins in chicken liver chromatin. (1979) (11)
- DNA sequence selection by tightly-bound nonhistone chromosomal proteins. (1979) (11)
- Energy environment in which we live (1963) (11)
- Differences between tree species in hydraulic press calibration of leaf water potential are correlated with specific leaf area (1984) (10)
- Near Infrared Solar Radiation Measurements by Balloon to an Altitude of 100 000 Feet (1958) (10)
- Microclimate: The Biological Environment. Norman J. Rosenberg (1976) (10)
- Transpiration Resistance and Energy Budget of Populus Sargentii Leaves (1966) (10)
- Plant-Water Relationships R. O. Slatyer (1968) (10)
- Climate change and the response of forests (1990) (10)
- Variation of photosynthesis in Elodea densa with pH and/or high CO2 concentrations (1979) (9)
- Measurement of Moisture Boundary Layers and Leaf Transpiration with a Microwave Refractometer (1963) (9)
- Plant Temperatures and Energy Budget (1973) (9)
- Carbon dynamics of northern hardwood forests: gas exchange characteristics (1985) (9)
- Development of a photosynthesis model with an emphasis on ecological applications (1977) (8)
- Conduction and Convection (1980) (8)
- A Model for Gaseous Pollutant Sorption by Leaves (1982) (8)
- Use of the Hungate anaerobic technique in the isolation of phloroglucinol-negative mutants of Coprococcus species (1976) (8)
- Temperature and Organisms (1980) (7)
- The Importance of Environment to Life (1964) (7)
- A comparison of rates of aboveground growth and carbon dioxide assimilation by aspen on sites of high and low quality. (1986) (7)
- Letter: Notes on "heat loss from a Newtonian animal". (1974) (7)
- GEOPHYSICAL FACTORS AFFECTING PLANT PRODUCTIVITY (1969) (6)
- Application to Plants (1980) (6)
- Calculated slant-path absorption and distribution of atmospheric water vapor. (1966) (6)
- Light Intensity and Leaf Temperature As Determining Factors in Diffusion Resistance (1975) (6)
- Preliminary results of the National Bureau of Standards radio and ionospheric observations during the International Geophysical Year (1959) (6)
- The diurnal time course of net photosynthesis of soybean leaves: Analysis with a physiologically based steady-state photosynthesis model (1980) (5)
- Ecological Aspects of the Mineral Nutrition of Plants, British Ecological Society Symposium No. 9 (1970) (5)
- LIGHT AND TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS (1970) (3)
- Aboveground biomass and production from 1938 to 1984 for four aspen plots in northern lower Michigan (1988) (3)
- Spectral Characteristics of Radiation and Matter (1980) (3)
- Book Review:Plant Photosynthetic Production. Manual of Methods. Z. Sestak, J. Catsky, P. G. Jarvis (1972) (3)
- Energy Budgets of Animals (1980) (3)
- Short-Term Effects of Carbon Dioxide on Gas Exchange of Leaves of Bigtooth Aspen Populus-Grandidentata in the Field (1984) (3)
- Government of Portugal. (1959) (2)
- Proceedings of the London Conference on Optical Instruments 1950 (1953) (2)
- Longwave and Total Radiation (1980) (2)
- The Prismatic Curvature of Spectral Lines (1952) (2)
- Getting Biologists Involved in Government (1975) (2)
- Radiation Laws, Units, and Definitions (1980) (2)
- Basic Research in Europe. (1959) (2)
- Plant Factors Affecting Evapotranspiration (2015) (2)
- Plants and Environment (1982) (1)
- Leaf Photosynthesis Models (2018) (1)
- Plant Science. (Book Reviews: Diagnostic Criteria for Plants and Soil) (1966) (1)
- Wave Mechanics and Molecular Biology (1966) (1)
- Albedo following fire in a northern hardwood forest (1983) (1)
- Energy and Energy Budgets (1980) (1)
- Application to Animals (1980) (1)
- State of the environment, 1982 (1982) (1)
- Science News Writing. (1961) (1)
- Hot Environments The Stress of Hot Environments D. McK. Kerslake (1973) (1)
- Climate and stability. (1969) (1)
- Research for Food Production (1976) (0)
- The Physics of Environment@@@Energy Exchange in the Biosphere (1964) (0)
- To Restore Communication (1967) (0)
- Microclimate: The Biological Environment.Norman J. Rosenberg , Blaine L. Blad , Sashi B. Verma (1984) (0)
- Lighting for Plant Growth Elwood D. Bickford Stuart Dunn (1973) (0)
- Book Review:Living Systems as Energy Converters. R. Buvet, M. J. Allen, J.-P. Massue (1978) (0)
- Twenty-Five Years of NSF and the Future (1975) (0)
- Solar Energy: Future Research: Direct Use of the Sun's Energy . Farrington Daniels. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1964. xviii + 374 pp. Illus. Paper, $2.45; cloth, $7.50. (1965) (0)
- Book Review:Microclimate: The Biological Environment. Norman J. Rosenberg (1976) (0)
- Notes on the Evaporation of Thin Metallic Films (1942) (0)
- Response : Basic Research in Europe (1959) (0)
- The US Environment in 1982 (1983) (0)
- Mathematical Models in Plant Physiology. A Quantitative Approach to Problems in Plant and Crop Physiology.J. H. M. Thornley (1977) (0)
- Time-Dependent Energetics of Animals (1980) (0)
- Response : Government of Portugal (1959) (0)
- Effects ofNitrate Application onAmaranthus powellii Wats.1 I.CHANGESINPHOTOSYNTHESIS, GROWTH RATES,AND LEAFAREA (1985) (0)
- Animal Coloration Life's Color Code William J. Hamilton, III (1974) (0)
- High-Altitude Observation Techniques. (1960) (0)
- High-Altitude Observation Techniques (1960) (0)
- Conclusions: The Challenge of the Future for Biophysical Ecology (1975) (0)
- Book Review:Principles and Measurements in Environmental Biology. F. I. Woodward, J. E. Sheehy (1984) (0)
- Ecosystem Structure and Function. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Biology Colloquium, Corvallis, Ore., April 1970. John A. Wiens, Ed. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 1972. 176 pp., illus. $5 (1972) (0)
- Biometeorology Weather and Life, An Introduction to Biometeorology William P. Lowry (1967) (0)
- ENERGY EXCHANGE WITHIN ECOSYSTEMS. Third Annual Technical Progress Report, May 15, 1969--May 14, 1970. (1970) (0)
- Chemical Biology Wave Mechanics and Molecular Biology Louis de Broglie (1968) (0)
- CO2 Exchange at Low PPFD and Low CO2 Levels: Measurement and Simulation (1984) (0)
- Interaction of H/sub 2/O and nitrogen stresses on trees: Progress report, 1 October 1986 to 30 September 1987 (1987) (0)
- Phenology Program of the IBP. (1969) (0)
- Transpiration and Leaf Temperature. Physical Processes in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems, Transport Processes. (1979) (0)
- A Analysis of the Infrared Spectra of the Normal Paraffin Hydrocarbons and the Far-Infrared Spectra of Carbon Tetrachloride. (1948) (0)
- Sorption of Solubilized Water by Cellulose from Perchloroethylene (1978) (0)
- Effects of light intensity and PH on photosynthesis in Elodea densa (1975) (0)
- Joys of Research (1983) (0)
- Review Feature Ecological Aspects of the Mineral Nutrition of Plants, British Ecological Society Symposium No. 9 I. H. Rorison (1970) (0)
- Plant Science: Diagnostic Criteria for Plants and Soil . Edited by Homer D. Chapman. Division of Agricultural Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 1966. 799 pp., $17.50. (1966) (0)
- Flora North America: A Data Bank For Systematic Biology (1971) (0)
- Book Review:Plants and Microclimate: A Quantitative Approach to Environmental Plant Physiology. Hamlyn G. Jones (1984) (0)
- Book Review:Physics of Plant Environment. W. R. van Wijk (1965) (0)
- Light as an Ecological Factor, A Symposium of the British Ecological Society (1966) (0)
- Fourth annual technical progress report for energy exchange within ecosystems. Period covered: January 1, 1976--December 31, 1976. [Testing in Elodea densa leaves] (1975) (0)
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