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Environmental physiology of plants /
This is the third edition of an established and successful university textbook. The original structure and philosophy of the book continue in this new edition, providing a genuine synthesis of modern ecological and physiological thinking, while entirely updating the detailed content. New features in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego, Calif. :
Academic Press,
�2002.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Plant growth and development
- The influence of the environment
- Evolution of adaptation
- Comparative ecology and phylogeny
- The Acquisition of Resources
- Energy and Carbon
- The radiation environment
- Radiation
- Irradiance
- Temporal variation
- Leaf canopies
- Effects of spectral distribution of radiation on plants
- Perception
- Germination
- Morphogenesis
- Placement
- Flowering
- Effects of irradiance on plants
- Responses to low irradiance
- Photosynthesis at high irradiance
- Responses to elevated carbon dioxide concentrations
- Photosynthetic responses
- Whole-plant responses
- Mineral Nutrients
- Nutrients in the soil system
- Soil diversity
- Concentrations
- Ion exchange
- Cycles
- Transport
- Limiting steps
- Physiology of ion uptake
- Kinetics
- Interactions
- Regulation
- Morphological responses
- Root fraction
- Root diameter and root hairs
- Root density and distribution
- Turnover
- Soil micro-organisms
- The nature of the rhizosphere
- Nitrogen fixation
- Mycorrhizas
- General patterns of response to soil nutrients
- Water
- Properties of water
- The water relations of plants and soils
- Water potential
- The water relations of plant cells
- Plant water stress
- Supply of water by the soil
- Loss of water from transpiring leaves
- Water movement in whole plants
- Adaptations favouring germination and seedling establishment in dry environments
- Adaptations favouring survival and reproduction under conditions of water shortage.