Resource Strategies of Wild Plants /

Show other versions (2)

Over millions of years, terrestrial plants have competed for limited resources, defended themselves against herbivores, and resisted a myriad of environmental stresses. These struggles have helped generate more than a quarter million terrestrial plant species, each possessing a unique strategy for s...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Craine, Joseph M., 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Evolution
Ressourcen
Wildpflanzen
Pflanzenökologie
Plant ecology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Developmental Biology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
Écologie vegetale.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The basis for plant strategies
  • The history of plant strategies
  • Stress and disturbance
  • Resource limitation
  • Competition for nutrients and light
  • Comparing negative effects
  • The low-nutrient strategy
  • The high-resource strategy
  • The low-light strategy
  • The low-water and low-CO₂ strategies
  • A synthesis of plant strategies.

Similar Items