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  title info:
    title: Ecology of Leaf Longevity
  name:
    name part: Kikuzawa, Kihachiro.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lechowicz, Martin J.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ja
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 147 p. online resource.
  abstract: Leaf longevity is a fundamental process underlying patterns of variation in foliar phenology and determining the distinction between deciduous and evergreen plant species. Variation in leaf longevity is associated with a wide array of differences in the physiology, anatomy, morphology and ecology of plants. This book brings together for the first time information scattered widely in the botanical literature to provide a clear and comprehensive introduction to the nature and significance of variation in leaf longevity. It traces the development of ideas about leaf longevity from the earliest descriptive studies to contemporary theory of leaf longevity as a key element in the function of leaves as photosynthetic organs. An understanding of variation in leaf longevity reveals much about the nature of adaptation at the whole plant level and provides fundamental insights into the basis of variation in plant productivity at the ecosystem level. The analysis of leaf longevity also provides a process-based perspective on phenological shifts associated with the changing climate. Readers will find this an informative synthesis summarizing and illustrating different views in a readily accessible narrative that draws attention to a central aspect of plant biology.
  note: by Kihachiro Kikuzawa, Martin J. Lechowicz.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Forestry
  subject:
    topic: Plant science
  subject:
    topic: Botany
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Forestry
  subject:
    topic: Plant Sciences
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: 577
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ecological Research Monographs
  identifier: 9784431539186
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53918-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 110621
    record change date: 20151125201822.0
    record identifier: 978-4-431-53918-6