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Ecology of Plants Jessica Gurevitch

Ecology of Plants By Jessica Gurevitch

Ecology of Plants by Jessica Gurevitch

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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.

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Ecology of Plants Summary

Ecology of Plants by Jessica Gurevitch

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.

Ecology of Plants Reviews

This is the only volume I have seen that contains a good treatment of evolutionary and physiological ecology, as well as more traditional topics such as competition and herbivory, vegetation types, and biomes. Overall, this useful book, beautifully laid out and well written, fills an important gap in the educational literature on plant ecology. It is up to date and quantitatively sophisticated, and it provides a nice balance between presentation of facts and concepts and narration of evocative examples. I plan to continue to use this volume in my course and recommend it highly. * Ingrid M. Parker, The Quarterly Review of Biology *
Overall, The Ecology of Plants provides a useful and complete tool to teach plant ecology to undergraduate students. Therefore, I strongly recommend it. * Stephane Boudreau, Ecoscience *

About Jessica Gurevitch

JESSICA GUREVITCH is Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. She earned a BS in Biological Sciences (Ecology, Evolution and Systematics) at Cornell University, and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.

SAMUEL M. SCHEINER is currently working for the U.S. federal government. Previously he was on the faculties of Arizona State University, Northern Illinois University and the University of Arizona. He earned his BA, MS and PhD, all in Biology, from the University of Chicago. His research has been involved equally with plants and animals, the theoretical and the empirical, including population genetics, physiological ecology, population biology and macroecology.

GORDON A. FOX is Associate Professor of Biology at the University of South Florida, USA. He earned a BA in History at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, where he researched the ecology, genetics and evolution of annual plants in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts. His postdoctoral work at the University of California concentrated on theoretical population genetics.

Table of Contents

The Science of Plant Ecology.- PART I: THE INDIVIDUAL AND ITS ENVIRONMENT.- 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 ECOSYSTEMS TO LANDSCAPES.- Ecosystem Processes.- Communities in Landscapes.- 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.

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CIN0878932941G
9780878932948
0878932941
Ecology of Plants by Jessica Gurevitch
Jessica Gurevitch
Used - Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
2006-07-17
540
N/A
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