Plant Strategies And Vegetation Processes
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Plant Strategies Vegetation Processes And Ecosystem Properties
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Author : J. Philip Grime
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2006-08-11
Plant Strategies Vegetation Processes And Ecosystem Properties written by J. Philip Grime and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-11 with Science categories.
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
Plant Strategies And Vegetation Processes
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Author : J. Philip Grime
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979-06-20
Plant Strategies And Vegetation Processes written by J. Philip Grime and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-06-20 with Science categories.
Plant strategies; Vegetation processes.
Plant Strategies And Vegetation Processes
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Author : John Philip Grime
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Plant Strategies And Vegetation Processes written by John Philip Grime and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Plant ecology categories.
Plant Strategies And Vegetation Processes
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Author : J. P. Grime
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Plant Strategies And Vegetation Processes written by J. P. Grime and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with categories.
Plant Strategies And The Dynamics And Structure Of Plant Communities Mpb 26 Volume 26
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Author : David Tilman
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Plant Strategies And The Dynamics And Structure Of Plant Communities Mpb 26 Volume 26 written by David Tilman and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Science categories.
Although ecologists have long considered morphology and life history to be important determinants of the distribution, abundance, and dynamics of plants in nature, this book contains the first theory to predict explicitly both the evolution of plant traits and the effects of these traits on plant community structure and dynamics. David Tilman focuses on the universal requirement of terrestrial plants for both below-ground and above-ground resources. The physical separation of these resources means that plants face an unavoidable tradeoff. To obtain a higher proportion of one resource, a plant must allocate more of its growth to the structures involved in its acquisition, and thus necessarily obtain a lower proportion of another resource. Professor Tilman presents a simple theory that includes this constraint and tradeoff, and uses the theory to explore the evolution of plant life histories and morphologies along productivity and disturbance gradients. The book shows that relative growth rate, which is predicted to be strongly influenced by a plant's proportional allocation to leaves, is a major determinant of the transient dynamics of competition. These dynamics may explain the differences between successions on poor versus rich soils and suggest that most field experiments performed to date have been of too short a duration to allow unambiguous interpretation of their results.
The Evolutionary Strategies That Shape Ecosystems
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Author : J. Philip Grime
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2012-03-26
The Evolutionary Strategies That Shape Ecosystems written by J. Philip Grime and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-26 with Science categories.
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.
Plant Strategies And The Dynamics And Structure Of Plant Communities
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Plant Strategies And The Dynamics And Structure Of Plant Communities written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Animal populations categories.
Resource Strategies Of Wild Plants
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Author : Joseph M. Craine
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-27
Resource Strategies Of Wild Plants written by Joseph M. Craine and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-27 with Science categories.
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 success. Yet, as Resource Strategies of Wild Plants demonstrates, the constraints on plant growth are universal enough that a few survival strategies hold true for all seed-producing plants. This book describes the five major strategies of growth for terrestrial plants, details how plants succeed when resources are scarce, delves into the history of research into plant strategies, and resets the foundational understanding of ecological processes. Drawing from recent findings in plant-herbivore interactions, ecosystem ecology, and evolutionary ecology, Joseph Craine explains how plants attain available nutrients, withstand the immense stresses of drying soils, and flourish in the race for light. He shows that the competition for resources has shaped plant evolution in newly discovered ways, while the scarcity of such resources has affected how plants interact with herbivores, wind, fire, and frost. An understanding of the major resource strategies of wild plants remains central to learning about the ecology of plant communities, global changes in the biosphere, methods for species conservation, and the evolution of life on earth.
The Population Structure Of Vegetation
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Author : J. White
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-11-09
The Population Structure Of Vegetation written by J. White and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-09 with Science categories.
The Handbook of Vegetation Science is growing. After the first volumes und er my editorship have appeared the interest of the scientific community has been revived and many new volume editors have started their work. The present volume wasjointly designed by Drs. J. White and W. Beeftink. Due to unforseen developments Dr. White signs now as the sole editor. The development of this volume within the series had a special history as Dr. White pointsout in his preface. Adding to this I need only to state that I found it essential to include the topic of this volume into a Hand book of Vegetation Science. lt was included therefore in my first revised Iist of topics to be included in the Handbook when I took over from Dr. Tüxen. It is a great pleasure for me to see this volume appear. Having read through the many contributions to this volume I can certainly congratu late Drs. White and Beeftink for their success in generating so much interest in this volume among their colleagues. The cooperation on this volume is forme the first sign that the new concept of the Handbook has been understood by the generation of scientists which I have to address. The influence this volume will have on the field ofplant population studies only time can teil. It appears to me, however, that this volume will become a standard resource for some future. Dr. White asked me to have this volume dedicated to Dr. Rabotnov.
Resource Strategies Of Wild Plants
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Author : Joseph M. Craine
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-05-17
Resource Strategies Of Wild Plants written by Joseph M. Craine and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-17 with Science categories.
Disturbance, limitation, nutrients, light, water.