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  title info:
    title: Plant Physiological Ecology
  name:
    name part: Lambers, Hans.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Chapin, F. Stuart.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Pons, Thijs L.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2008
    edition: Second Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIX, 605 p. online resource.
  abstract: The growth, reproduction, and geographical distribution of plants are profoundly influenced by their physiological ecology: the interaction with the surrounding physical, chemical, and biological environments. This textbook describes mechanisms that underlie plant physiological ecology at the levels of physiology, biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology. At the same time, the integrative power of physiological ecology is well suited to assess the costs, benefits, and consequences of modifying plants for human needs and to evaluate the role of plants in ecosystems. Plant Physiological Ecology, Second Edition is significantly updated, with full color illustrations and begins with the primary processes of carbon metabolism and transport, plant water relations, and energy balance. After considering individual leaves and whole plants, these physiological processes are then scaled up to the level of the canopy. Subsequent chapters discuss mineral nutrition and the ways in which plants cope with nutrient-deficient or toxic soils. The book then looks at patterns of growth and allocation, life-history traits, and interactions between plants and other organisms. Later chapters deal with traits that affect decomposition of plant material and with the consequences of plant physiological ecology at ecosystem and global levels. Plant Physiological Ecology, Second Edition features numerous boxed entries that extend the discussions of selected issues, a glossary, and numerous references to the primary and review literature. This significant new text is suitable for use in plant ecology courses, as well as classes ranging from plant physiology to plant molecular biology. From reviews of the first edition: ". . . the authors cover a wide range of plant physiological aspects which up to now could not be found in one book. . . . The book can be recommended not only to students but also to scientists working in general plant physiology and ecology as well as in applied agricultu…
  table of contents: Assumptions and Approaches -- Photosynthesis, Respiration, and Long-Distance Transport -- Respiration -- Long-Distance Transport of Assimilates -- Plant Water Relations -- Leaf Energy Budgets: Effects of Radiation and Temperature -- Effects of Radiation and Temperature -- Scaling-Up Gas Exchange and Energy Balance from the Leaf to the Canopy Level -- Mineral Nutrition -- Growth and Allocation -- Life Cycles: Environmental Influences and Adaptations -- Biotic Influences -- Ecological Biochemistry: Allelopathy and Defense Against Herbivores -- Effects of Microbial Pathogens -- Parasitic Associations -- Interactions Among Plants -- Carnivory -- Role in Ecosystem and Global Processes -- Ecosystem and Global Processes: Ecophysiological Controls.
  note: by Hans Lambers, F. Stuart Chapin, Thijs L. Pons.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  subject:
    topic: Plant ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant science
  subject:
    topic: Botany
  subject:
    topic: Plant anatomy
  subject:
    topic: Plant development
  subject:
    topic: Plant physiology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Plant Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant Anatomy/Development
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  classification: QK900-989
  classification: 581.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780387783413
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78341-3
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