EcoPhys Haiku

 

Cocha Cashu

 

Emperor Rubisco

Willing to drive Calvins

Sends tannins to war


Morning sunlight shines

Carbon uptake starts to climb

Photosynthesis


Warm rain to Earth

Turn back with evaporation

Ah, holy water cycle!


Decomposition

Controls growth rate of a plant

Through a feedback loop


Complete the cycle-

break down biotic compounds-

decomposition


Nitrogen fixers

Advantage to those who can

Legumes sure are great


An old growth forest
Tree canopies filter
Sun's irradiance


Rachis, where did you go?

It appears you are hollow and bare.

Alas, a water column there!

 


Root shoot ratio

That allocation is so

Key to survival


Plants are hungry things

Greedy roots eat through the Earth

Leaves drain atmosphere


Photosynthesis
Carbon assimilation
Roots and shoots are built


Photosynthesis:

CO2, Light, Chlorophyll

H2O, glucose


Sun gives too much heat

Plants must protect their water

ABA's the key


Water in a plant

A continuum soil to air

Yes, transpiration


Plasmodesmata

H2O symplastic moves

Potential controls


Decomposition

Provides nutrients for growth

Soil microbes and plants


Nutrient limit
I need more irradiance 
To increase my shoots


High irradiance

Leaves acclimate at night.

Photosynthesis.


Drink-ing more Red bull,
Pre-dawn wat-er pot-ent-ials,
Guinn-ess and Wan-da


Percolation moves

The water to thirsty roots

With leached nutrients


Need water, more roots

Need more nitrogen, more roots

Need light, forget roots


Decomposition

Controls growth rate of a plant

Through a feedback loop


Xylem and phloem
You move nutrients swiftly
Thanks for all your work


Stomata are cool
Water stays where it belongs
hydrated all day


Auxin descends from the bud
Locked forever in a battle with cytokinin
Until no more buds remain


Soil to plant to air

Matrix, solute and pressure

Water potential


Warm rain to earth,

Turn back with evoporation

Ah, holy water cycle!


   Sunlight sparkling down

Green life roots down stems stretch up

Photosynthesis


Carbon dioxide
Ever eager H2O
Glucose creation


Night falls green leaves sigh
Organisms oxidize
Happy energy


Morning sunlight shines
Carbon uptake starts to climb
Photosynthesis


I

Look at the white light
for some, direct is better
for others, just shade

II
when gold reach each day,
green laborers are ready
to break fresh water

III
Then breathing and food,
are photo-products of plants,
and shared by all.

IV
Look at the summer
it can burn green on desert
plants close their windows

V
All plants need you, light
like water, heat and nutrients
but only you can shine.


 

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