| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 702 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
STRESS PHYSIOLOGY: Environment as stress factor: stress physiology of plants -- Light -- Temperature -- Oxygen deficiency (anaerobiosis and hypoxia) -- Water deficiency (drought) -- Salt stress (osmotic stress) -- Heavy metals -- Aluminium -- Xenobiotica -- AUTOECOLOGY: WHOLE PLANT ECOLOGY: Thermal balance of plants -- Water relations of plants -- Nutrient relations of plants -- Carbon balance -- ECOLOGY OF ECOSYSTEMS: The ecosystem concept -- Processes in stands and ecosystems -- The biogeochemical cycles -- Biodiversity and ecosystems processes -- Case studies at the scale of ecosystems -- SYNDYNAMICS, SYNCHOROLOGY, SYNECOLOGY: Historic-genetic development of phytocenoses and their dynamics -- Synchorology: basis of spatial distribution of plants -- Interactions between vegetation and abiotic and biotic environments: synecology -- GLOBAL ASPECTS OF PLANT ECOLOGY: Global change and global institutions -- Global material cycles -- Human influence on carbon balance and significance for global climate -- Significance of change in land use for carbon cycles -- Influence of human activities on biodiversity -- Socio-economic interactions |
| Summary |
"Plant Ecology provides a unique and up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the field, making it ideally suitable as a textbook and reference work for students, researchers and practitioners." "More than 500 high-quality images and drawings, mostly in colour, aid the reader in visualizing and understanding numerous key topics. Its clear structure and straightforward style make it user friendly and particularly accessible for students. The integrity and authoritativeness of the information is guaranteed by an experienced author team." "Whilst Plant Ecology is primarily aimed at graduate students of biology, post-graduate students and researchers in botany, geosciences and landscape ecology will also find this text invaluable as a reference work. In fact, everybody whose study or work touches on agriculture, forestry, land use, and landscape management will find this text a rich learning experience."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Translation of: Pflanzenökologie |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Plant ecology -- Textbooks
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Plant ecology.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beck, Erwin, author
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Müller-Hohenstein, Klaus, author
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| ISBN |
9783540265344 |
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3540265341 |
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