Francisco Pugnaire / Fernando Valladares (eds.)

Functional Plant Ecology

Herausgeber: Pugnaire, Francisco; Valladares, Fernando

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Following in the footsteps of the successful first edition, Functional Plant Ecology, Second Edition continues to offer the latest findings and research breakthroughs in plant ecology and serves as an every point to further research. Extensively revised and updated, this book investigates plant structure and behavior across the ecological spectrum. It features new chapters on molecular ecology as well as the ecology and evolution of plant crowns. A concluding chapter addresses new approaches to generalization in functional plant ecology, including species-sampling issues, plant ecology strategy schemes, and phylogeny.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 746
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 183mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1438g
• ISBN-13: 9780849374883
• ISBN-10: 084937488X
• Artikelnr.: 22279701

Autorenporträt

Fernando Valladares, Francisco Pugnaire

Inhaltsangabe

Methods in Comparative Functional Ecology. Ecological Significance of
Inherent Variation in Relative Growth Rate. Architecture, Ecology, and
Evolution of Plant Crowns. The Structure and Function of Root Systems.
Water Relations and Hydraulic Architecture. Exploitation of Changing
Environments. Acquisition, Use and Loss of Nutrients. Functional Attributes
in Mediterranean-type Ecosystems. Tropical Forests: Structure, Nutrition,
and Functional Groups. Plant Diversity in Tropical Forests. Arctic Ecology.
Plant Life in Antarctica. Plant Interactions: Facilitation. Plant
Interactions: Competition. Plant-herbivore Interactions: Beyond a Binary
Vision. Ecology of Reproduction. Seed and Seedling Ecology. Soil Controls
of Vegetation. Resistance to Air Pollutants. Molecular Ecology. Canopy
Photosynthesis Modeling. Ecological Applications of Remote Sensing at
Multiple Scales. Generalization in Functional Plant Ecology: the
Species-Sampling Problem, Plant Ecology Strategy Schemes, and Phylogeny.