The ecology of plants
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The ecology of plants
Sinauer Associates, c2006
2nd ed
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
471.7:G95:2nd ed5010442696
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [531]-553) and index
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Description
Brighter than ever, this text covers a range of topics with the focus on the interactions between plants and their environment over a range of scales. Throughout the book, human environmental influences are discussed as well as the importance of evolutionary and other historical processes for current ecology.
Table of Contents
The Science of Plant Ecology.- PART I: THE INDIVIDUAL AND ITS ENVIRONMENT.- Photosynthesis and the Light Environment.- Water Relations and Energy Balance.- Soils, Mineral Nutrition, and Belowground Interactions.- PART II: POPULATIONS AND EVOLUTION.- Population Structure, Growth, and Decline.- Processes of Evolution.- Natural Selection.- Growth and Reproduction of Individuals.- Plant Growth.- Plant Life Histories.- PART III: PLANT COMMUNITIES.- Community Properties.- Competition and Other Interactions among Plants.- Herbivory and Plant-Pathogen Interactions.- Disturbance and Succession.- Local Abundance, Diversity, and Rarity.- PART IV: FROM ECOSYSTEMS TO LANDSCAPES.- Ecosystem Processes.- Communities in Landscapes.- Landscape Ecology.- PART V: GLOBAL PATTERNS AND PROCESSES.- Climate and Physiognomy.- Biomes.- Regional and Global Diversity.- Paleoecology.- Global Change: Humans and Plants.- Appendix: A Statistics Primer.
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