Ecology of Plants - Gurevitch, Jessica
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‘The Ecology of Plants’ is a textbook that covers general ecology, but with the focus on the interactions between plants and their environment over a range of scales. It also emphasises the importance of evolutionary and other historical processes for current ecology. While the book is written for an undergraduate course in plant ecology, the engaging style, thorough coverage of the field, and contemporary perspective make it accessible and useful to others, from conservation biologists to evolutionary biologists
Content:
Preface
Introduction
THE INDIVIDUAL AND ITS ENVIRONMENT…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
‘The Ecology of Plants’ is a textbook that covers general ecology, but with the focus on the interactions between plants and their environment over a range of scales. It also emphasises the importance of evolutionary and other historical processes for current ecology. While the book is written for an undergraduate course in plant ecology, the engaging style, thorough coverage of the field, and contemporary perspective make it accessible and useful to others, from conservation biologists to evolutionary biologists

Content:
Preface
Introduction
THE INDIVIDUAL AND ITS ENVIRONMENT
Photosynthesis and the Light Environment
Water Relations and Energy Balance
Soils, Mineral Nutrition, and Mycorrhizal Interactions
EVOLUTION AND POPULATION BIOLOGY
Processes of Evolution
Outcomes of Evolution
Population Structure and Growth
Growth and Reproduction of Individuals
Life Histories
FROM POPULATIONS TO COMMUNITIES
Competition
Herbivory and Disease
Community Properties
Disturbance and Succession
Local Abundance, Diversity, and Rarity
FROM ECOSYSTEMS TO LANDSCAPES
Ecosystem Processes
Communities in Landscapes
Landscape Ecology
GLOBAL PATTERNS AND PROCESSES
Climate and Vegetation Structure
Biomes
Regional and Global Diversity
Paleoecology
Global change: Humans and Plants
Appendix A: A Statistics Primer
Glossary
Literature Cited
Autorenporträt
JESSICA GUREVITCH, State University of New York at Stony Brook USA.

SAMUEL M. SCHEINER, Arizona State University USA.

GORDON A. FOX, University of South Florida USA.