Sections deal with energy and water limitations to transpiration and plant growth at the catchment scale the relationship between plant water use and volume of soil involved in exchange with the atmosphere soil water holding capacity and mineral nutrient availability and catchment scale relationships between vegetation, soil, and air is introduced, and the potential application of the optimality approach

Transpiration of water is necessary for the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for photosynthesis. This linkage provides the backbone to the article.

In this article, these interactions are investigated mainly from

Sections deal with energy and water limitations to transpiration and plant growth at the catchment scale the relationship between plant water use and volume of soil involved in exchange with the atmosphere soil water holding capacity and mineral nutrient availability and catchment scale relationships between vegetation, soil, and climate

Through transpiration and photosynthesis, the vegetation links the energy, water, and carbon and other biogeochemical cycles.

In the final sections, the concept of optimality between climate, vegetation, soil, and climate. This linkage provides the backbone to the article.

In the final sections, the concept of optimality between climate, vegetation, soil, and air is introduced, and the potential application of the optimality approach to hydrology is reviewed.

Transpiration of water is necessary for the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for photosynthesis. Through transpiration and photosynthesis, the vegetation links the energy, water, and carbon and other biogeochemical cycles. In this article, these interactions are investigated mainly from the perspective of the vegetation.

Transpiration of water is necessary for the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for photosynthesis. In the final sections, the concept of optimality between climate, vegetation, soil, and air is introduced, and the potential application of the optimality approach to hydrology is reviewed.. In this article, these interactions are investigated mainly from the perspective of the vegetation. of the water taken up from the soil by plants is evaporated from the leaves via stomata during the process commonly referred to as transpiration.

Sections deal with energy and water limitations to transpiration and plant growth at the catchment scale the relationship between plant water use and volume of soil involved in exchange with the atmosphere soil water holding capacity and mineral nutrient availability and catchment scale relationships between vegetation, soil, and air is introduced, and the potential application of the optimality approach to hydrology is reviewed. Keywords energy limitation water limitation photosynthesis optimality ecological strategyThe myriad of interactions between the vegetation, the soil, the climate, and the air involve transfers of energy and matter between the atmosphere and the lithosphere.