Ecology of Plants

2. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-87893-294-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc

Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 284 mm, Gewicht: 2186 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gurevitch, Jessica

Scheiner, Samuel M.

Fox, Gordon A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

JESSICA GUREVITCH is Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. She earned a BS in Biological Sciences (Ecology, Evolution and Systematics) at Cornell University, and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. SAMUEL M. SCHEINER is currently working for the U.S. federal government. Previously he was on the faculties of Arizona State University, Northern Illinois University and the University of Arizona. He earned his BA, MS and PhD, all in Biology, from the University of Chicago. His research has been involved equally with plants and animals, the theoretical and the empirical, including population genetics, physiological ecology, population biology and macroecology. GORDON A. FOX is Associate Professor of Biology at the University of South Florida, USA. He earned a BA in History at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, where he researched the ecology, genetics and evolution of annual plants in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts. His postdoctoral work at the University of California concentrated on theoretical population genetics.