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Author : Natural environment research council (GB).
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1855310503
Author : G.A. Hendry,J.P. Grime
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401114943
Methods in Comparative Plant Ecology: A laboratory manual is a sister book to the widely acclaimed Comparative Plant Ecology by Grime, Hodgson and Hunt. It contains details on some 90 critical concise diagnostic techniques by over 40 expert contributors. In one volume it provides an authoritative bench-top guide to diagnostic techniques in experimental plant ecology.
Author : Ian D. Rotherham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319497976
This is a challenging new approach to understanding ecological systems especially in urban and urbanised areas. Synthesising current ideas and approaches the book develops an historic context to ecological fusion and recombinant or hybrid ecosystems. With massive climate change and other environmental fluxes, this volume provides insight into consequences for future ecologies. Invasive and non-native or alien species are spreading, often aggressively around the globe. However, much current thinking in ecology and nature conservation fails to accommodate the consequences of changing environmental conditions and fusion of both species and ecological communities. Whether or not conservationists accept ecological change, factors such as urbanisation and globalisation combine with climate and other changes to trigger new hybrid communities and ecologies. Embedding this approach into current ecological thinking this book presents an overview of ideas set in the exemplar case study area of the British Isles. However, the approaches, ideas and conclusions presented here will find application in ecosystem studies and in nature conservation around the world.
Author : Mary Allessio Leck
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780323148658
Ecology of Soil Seed Banks examines the factors that influence seed bank dynamics and the variety of patterns found among different species. This book presents seed banks in a community context to explore the ecological implications of different patterns, and thus begin the development of a synthesis by comparing various communities. Organized into five parts, this book first examines the general processes that influence inputs or losses from the seed bank, including predation, dormancy/germination mechanisms, and their evolutionary importance. Then, this text examines seed banks in a community context. Only eight vegetation types are included, but the range in diversity of life form, length of growing season, and dominant environmental conditions allow comparisons of seed bank patterns. This book also explores the role of seed banks in vegetation management. This reference material will be a valuable reference material to population and community ecologists and managers. Evolutionary consequences of seed banks should be of interest to population and theoretical biologists.
Author : J. Philip Grime
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470850404
Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties, Second Edition, is a thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition of the very successful Plant Strategies and Vegetative Processes, which controversially proposed the existence of widely-recurring plant functional types with predictable relationships to vegetation structure and dynamics. This second edition uses evidence from many parts of the world to re-examine these concepts in the light of the enormous expansion in the literature. Features include: * A new section covering all aspects of ecosystem properties * New chapters on Assembling of Communities Rarification and Extinction Colonisation and Invasion * Principles and methodologies of a range of international tests including case study examples * Chapter summaries for a quick reference guide * Index of species names Written in a very readable style, this book is an invaluable reference source for researchers in the areas of plant, animal, and community ecology, conservation and land management. 'Written by one of the foremost authorities in the field, summarising over 35 years of research. A book all plant ecologists will want to read.' - Jonathan Silvertown, Department of Biological Sciences, The Open University, UK. 'The coverage is outstanding and comprehensive.' - Simon A. Levin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA
Author : Steven R. Radosevich,Jodie S. Holt,Claudio M. Ghersa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470168936
The classic reference on weeds and invasive plants has been revised and updated. The Third Edition of this authoritative reference provides an in-depth understanding of how weeds and invasive plants develop and interact in the environment so you can manage and control them more effectively. The guide includes an introduction to weeds and invasive plants in various environments and an overview of their ecology and evolution. With extensive examples, this book: Focuses on the biological features of weeds and invasive plants, especially as they exist in agriculture, forests, rangelands, and natural ecosystems. Includes coverage of exotic invasive plants. Discusses a variety of methods and tools for managing weeds and invasive plants, including physical, cultural, biological, and chemical approaches. Examines systems approaches for management, including modern Integrated Pest Management. Addresses future challenges for scientists, farmers, and land managers. This is the definitive, hands-on reference if you're a land manager or professional in plant sciences, agronomy, weed science, and horticulture. The book is also an excellent textbook for senior undergraduate or graduate students studying agriculture, ecology, natural resources management, environmental management, or related fields.
Author : William E. Winner,Eva J. Pell
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080924830
This book presents a whole-plant perspective on plant integrated responses to multiple stresses, including an analysis of how plants have evolved growth forms and phenological responses to cope with changing stress patterns in natural environments. Explores stress responses at both the structural and process levels Outlines structural, phenological, and physiological responses that optimize production under multiple stresses Combines physiological and evolutionary perspectives
Author : Steven R. Radosevich,Jodie S. Holt,Claudio Ghersa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-05
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0471116068
Weeds are successful plants, but on their own terms. Looking at weeds from an ecological viewpoint, emphasising the way in which one species interacts with others, the authors show that weeds are questionable mainly in that they are out-of-place.
Author : J. R. Porter,D. W. Lawlor
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991-07-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521361338
Concepts of nutrition in relation to cellular process and environment; Nutrient compartmentation in cells and its relevance to the nutrition of the whole plant; Nutrients and photosynthesis: iron and phosphorus as case studies; The comparative ecophysiology of plant nitrogen metabolism; Concepts of nutritional and environmental interactions determining plant productivity; Plant-soil relationship: acquisition of mineral nutrients by roots from soils; Ecophysiological aspects of nutrition; Strategies for optimising growth in response to nutrient supply; Pollution, nutrition and plant function; The role of nitrogen in yeld formation and achievement of quality standards in cereals; nutrition, environment and plant ecology: an overview.
Author : Thomas Michael Smith,H. H. Shugart,F. I. Woodward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-13
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0521566436
This book describes approaches and methods for grouping species with similar characteristics into functional types in ways which maximise our potential to predict accurately the responses of real vegetation with real species diversity.
Author : Odd Terje Sandlund,Peter Johan Schei,Åslaug Viken
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0792368762
Based on a selection of papers presented at the Norway/UN Conference on Alien Species, Trondheim, Norway
Author : J.P. Grime,J.G. Hodgson,R. Hunt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401710947
Author : J. Philip Grime,Simon Pierce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118223277
THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin’s tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation – adaptation of animals and plants not just to the environment but also to life with other living things. However, more than 150 years since Darwin published his singular idea of natural selection, the science of ecology has yet to account for how contrasting evolutionary outcomes affect the ability of organisms to coexist in communities and to regulate ecosystem functioning. In this book Philip Grime and Simon Pierce explain how evidence from across the world is revealing that, beneath the wealth of apparently limitless and bewildering variation in detailed structure and functioning, the essential biology of all organisms is subject to the same set of basic interacting constraints on life-history and physiology. The inescapable resulting predicament during the evolution of every species is that, according to habitat, each must adopt a predictable compromise with regard to how they use the resources at their disposal in order to survive. The compromise involves the investment of resources in either the effort to acquire more resources, the tolerance of factors that reduce metabolic performance, or reproduction. This three-way trade-off is the irreducible core of the universal adaptive strategy theory which Grime and Pierce use to investigate how two environmental filters selecting, respectively, for convergence and divergence in organism function determine the identity of organisms in communities, and ultimately how different evolutionary strategies affect the functioning of ecosystems. This book refl ects an historic phase in which evolutionary processes are finally moving centre stage in the effort to unify ecological theory, and animal, plant and microbial ecology have begun to find a common theoretical framework. Companion website This book has a companion website www.wiley.com/go/grime/evolutionarystrategies with Figures and Tables from the book for downloading.
Author : I. H. Rorison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Plant ecology
ISBN : OCLC:1079761520
Author : Stephen Richard
Publisher : Mansell
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015009806665