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Terrestrial Plant Ecology, 3rd Edition
ISBN-10: 0-8053-0004-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-8053-0004-8
Published by Benjamin Cummings
© 1999
Pub. Date: Sep 29, 1998
Format: Paper
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Table of Contents
I. BACKGROUND AND BASIC CONCEPTS.
1. Introduction.
2. A Brief History of Plant Ecology.
II. THE SPECIES AS AN ECOLOGICAL UNIT.
3. The Species in the Environmental Complex.
4. Population Structure and Plant Demography.
5. Allocation and Life History Patterns.
6. Species Interactions: Competition and Amensalism.
7. Species Interactions: Commensalism, Mutualism, and Herbivory.
III. THE COMMUNITY AS AN ECOLOGICAL UNIT.
8. Community Concepts and Attributes.
9. Methods of Sampling the Plant Community.
10. Classification and Ordination of Plant Communities.
11. Succession.
12. Productivity.
13. Mineral Cycles.
IV. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS.
14. Light and Temperature.
15. Photosynthesis.
16. Fire.
17. Soil.
18. Plant-Water Dynamics.
19. Water: Environment and Adaptations.
20. Major Vegetation Types of North America.
Literature Cited.
Index.
