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The Ecology of Plants provides comprehensive, contemporary coverage of plant ecology. Now in its third edition, the text incorporates current scientific developments and includes hundreds of stunning photographs, insightful illustrations, and references. It also features a clean, modern design that makes the material accessible and appealing. The book covers a range of current and historical ecological topics, presented in an evolutionary context, with the focus on the interactions between plants and their environments over a range of scales. Some of the subjects covered are unique to plants, such as photosynthesis and the ecology of plant-soil interactions; other topics, such as resource and mate acquisition, emphasize the distinctive ways plants (in contrast to animals) deal with their environments. The book uniquely emphasizes the importance of evolutionary and other historical ecological processes as well as human environmental influences. While the book is written for an undergraduate course in plant ecology, the engaging style, thorough coverage of the field, and contemporary perspective make it accessible and useful to others as well, including graduate students in conservation biology, evolutionary biologists and resource managers.
Contents
Chapter 1. The Science of Plant Ecology
Part 1: Individuals and Their Environment
Chapter 2. Photosynthesis and Light
Chapter 3. Water Relations and Thermal Energy Balance
Chapter 4. Soil and Terrestrial Plant Life
Chapter 5. Ecosystem Processes
Part 2: From Individuals to Populations
Chapter 6. Individual Growth and Reproduction
Chapter 7. Plant Life Histories
Chapter 8. Population Structure, Growth, and Decline
Chapter 9. Evolution: Processes and Change
Part 3: Population Interactions and Communities
Chapter 10. Competition and Other Plant Interactions
Chapter 11. Herbivory and other Trophic Interactions
Chapter 12. Community diversity and structure
Chapter 13. Community dynamics and succession
Chapter 14. Local Abundance, Diversity, and Rarity
Part 4: From Landscapes to Planet Earth
Chapter 15. Landscapes: Pattern and Scale
Chapter 16. Climate, Plants, and Climate Change
Chapter 17. Paleoecology
Chapter 18. Biomes and Physiognomy
Chapter 19. Global Biodiversity Patterns, Loss, and Conservation
