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基本説明
新たな図版を多数収録した、フルカラー植物生態学テキストの４年振りの全面改訂版。
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.
Full Description
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.
Contents
The Science of Plant Ecology.- PART IENVIRONMENT.- 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 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.
