Talk:Botany/Plant morphology

Experts! Many people have talked to me about a "plant boundry layer" which has been described as the air around a leaf. A plant expands it's boundry layer by having rattly leaves and makes it's boundry layer small and humid by having hairs on it's leaves, or by having compound leaves (I think!). However- I cannot find any resources for this concept. Usually I've had luck finding public domain science information through government sites, but there is an unrelated (again, I think) physics concept that plagues these searches. So, yeah. Any help? - Lotusduck 01:44, 4 November 2005 (UTC)lotusduck
 * Well I think you are right in that the concept you are pursuing makes sense and there must exist sources of information out there that can provide details. I suspect your problem is this: you are putting too much faith in the internet. As great a source of information as the internet is, it is unreal to expect that all knowledge is now available on-line if only you could figure out where to look.  If I learned nothing else as a graduate student, it was how to move out from the more general knowledge contained in books (i.e., textbooks) to what we called the foreskin of science.  To track a specific question or esoteric point or subject to its very end point: where the published knowledge presently exists. It is a process that must be done in a good University library, using various sources that track journal publications. That effort will usually get you to within a few years of current knowledge.  Crossing that final gap requires knowing who is doing what research in the field or on the specific question and then contacting them. Until you get into the journals on published literature on the subject of "boundary layer" concepts, you will not see much about it. - marsh 04:29, 4 November 2005 (UTC)