Now in full color, this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The Ecology of Plants incorporates many new illustrations and hundreds of new references. The text covers a range of topics that you might find in a general ecology textbook, but with the focus on the interactions between plants and their environment over a range of scales. Some of the subjects covered are unique to plants, such as photosynthesis and the ecology of plant--soil interactions; other topics, such as resource and mate acquisition, emphasize the distinctive ways plants (in contrast to mobile animals) deal with their environments. The book is unusual in emphasizing the importance of evolutionary and other historical processes for current ecology. Throughout the text, human environmental influences are discussed. While the book is written for an undergraduate college course in plant ecology, the engaging style, thorough coverage of the field, and contemporary perspective make it accessible and useful to others as well, from graduate students in conservation biology to evolutionary biologists and resource managers.
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The Ecology of Plants (2nd Edition)

Gurevitch, Jessica; Scheiner, Samuel M., 1956-; Fox, Gordon A., 1952-

Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates, Inc.

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

W.H. Freeman ; Palgrave [distributor

Sinauer Associates, Incorporated

United States, United States of America

2nd ed, New York, Basingstoke, 2006

2 edition, April 1, 2006

Second edition, PT, 2006

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. The Science of Plant Ecology: Ecology as a Science - Scale and Heterogeneity - The Structure and History of Plant Ecology - Additional Readings. Part I. The Individual and Its Environment: 2. Photosynthesis and the Light Environment - 3. Water Relations and Energy Balance - 4. Soils, Mineral Nutrition, and Belowground Interactions. Part II. Populations and Evolution: 5. Population Structure, Growth, and Decline - 6. Evolutionary Processes and Outcomes - 7. Growth and Reproduction of Individuals - 8. Plant Life Histories. Part III. Plant Communities: 9. Community Properties - 10. Competition and Other Interactions among Plants - 11. Herbivory and Plant-Pathogen Interactions - 12. Disturbance and Succession - 13. Local Abundance, Diversity, and Rarity. Part IV. From Ecosystems to Landscapes: 14. Ecosystem Processes - 15. Communities in Landscapes - 16. Landscape Ecology. Part V. Global Patterns and Processes: 17. Climate and Physiognomy: 18. Biomes: Moist Tropical Forests (Tropical Rainforest - Tropical Montane Forest); Seasonal Tropical Forests and Woodlands (Tropical Deciduous Forest - Thorn Forest - Tropical Woodland); Temperate Deciduous Forest; Other Temperate Forests and Woodlands (Temperate Rainforest - Temperate Evergreen Forest - Temperate Woodland); Taiga; Temperate Shrubland; Grasslands (Temperate Grassland - Tropical Savanna); Deserts (Hot Desert - Cold Desert); Alpine and Arctic Vegetation (Alpine Grassland and Shrubland - Tundra) - 19. Regional and Global Diversity -20. Paleoecology - 21. Global Change: Humans and Plants

"Now in full color, this thoroughly revised and updated Second Edition of The Ecology of Plants incorporates many new illustrations and hundreds of new references. The text covers a range of topics that you might find in a general ecology textbook, but with the focus on the interactions between plants and their environment over a range of scales. Some of the subjects covered are unique to plants, such as photosynthesis and the ecology of plant-soil interactions; other topics, such as resource and mate acquisition, emphasize the distinctive ways plants (in contrast to mobile animals) deal with their environments. The book is unusual in emphasizing the importance of evolutionary and other historical processes for current ecology. Throughout the text, human environmental influences are discussed. While the book is written for an undergraduate college course in plant ecology, the engaging style, thorough coverage of the field, and contemporary perspective make it accessible and useful to others as well, from graduate students in conservation biology to evolutionary biologists and resource managers."--Publisher's website

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.

The biological science of ecology is the study of the relationships between living organisms and their environments, the interactions of organisms with one another, and the patterns and causes of the abundance and distribution of organisms in nature.

Jessica Gurevitch, Samuel M. Scheiner, Gordon A. Fox. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

xvii, 574 p. : 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index

2023-06-28