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Book Synopsis Handbook of Plant Palaeoecology by : R. T. J. Cappers
Download or read book Handbook of Plant Palaeoecology written by R. T. J. Cappers and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant palaeoecologists use data from plant fossils and plant subfossils to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. This book deals with the study of subfossil plant material retrieved from archaeological excavations and cores dated to the Late Glacial and Holocene. One of the main objectives of this book is to describe the processes that underlie the formation of the archaeobotanical archive and the ultimate composition of the archaeobotanical records, being the data that are sampled and identified from this immense archive. Our understanding of these processes benefits from a knowledge of plant ecology and traditional agricultural practices and food processing. This handbook summarizes the basic ecological principles that relate to the reconstruction of former vegetations and of agricultural practices in particular. We hope this book will help palaeobotanists, environmental archaeologists, and colleagues from related disciplines optimize inferences based on what we could term old-style archaeobotany. And we hope that our observations will serve as an eye-opener and improve future research, not only as it is practised in our laboratories, but also as it is practised in the field.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Plant Palaeoecology by : R.T.J. Cappers
Download or read book Handbook of Plant Palaeoecology written by R.T.J. Cappers and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a completely revised version of the first edition, which was published in 2012. Plant palaeoecologists use data from plant fossils and plant subfossils to reconstruct ecosystems and food economies of the past. This book deals with the study of subfossil plant material retrieved from archaeological excavations and cores dated to the Late Glacial and the Holocene. One of the main objectives of this book is to describe the processes that underlie the formation of the archaeobotanical archive and the ultimate composition of the archaeobotanical record - being the data that are sampled and identified from this immense archive.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Functional Plant Ecology by : Francisco Pugnaire
Download or read book Handbook of Functional Plant Ecology written by Francisco Pugnaire and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-03-10 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Offers the latest findings and research breakthroughs in plant ecology, as well as consideration of classic topics in environmental science and ecology. This wide-ranging compendium serves as an extremely accessible and useful resource for relative newcomers to the field as well as seasoned experts. Investigates plant structure and behavior across the ecological spectrum, from the leaf to the ecosystem levels."
Book Synopsis Handbook of Plant Palaeoecology (2nd edition 2021) by : R.T.J. Cappers
Download or read book Handbook of Plant Palaeoecology (2nd edition 2021) written by R.T.J. Cappers and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a completely revised version of the first edition, which was published in 2012. Plant palaeoecologists use data from plant fossils and plant subfossils to reconstruct ecosystems and food economies of the past. This book deals with the study of subfossil plant material retrieved from archaeological excavations and cores dated to the Late Glacial and the Holocene. One of the main objectives of this book is to describe the processes that underlie the formation of the archaeobotanical archive and the ultimate composition of the archaeobotanical record - being the data that are sampled and identified from this immense archive. Our understanding of these processes benefits from a knowledge of plant ecology and traditional agricultural practices and food processing. This handbook summarizes the basic ecological principles that relate to the reconstruction of former vegetation and of the agricultural practices in particular. This handbook is a completely revised version of the first edition, which was published in 2012. An important adaptation relates to new developments in the research on diaspores (seeds and fruits). This mainly concerns morphology, taxonomy, and ecology. We reduced the treatment of research on pollen somewhat, and we now present it in an equivalent manner to the other research disciplines. We have extended the cereals with millets, a variable group of grains that play an important role in the agricultural development of both Eurasia and northern Africa. The taxonomy is largely in line with new insights based on combined morphological and genetic research, as published by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The findings of our ethno-archaeobotanical fieldwork have been extensively documented in the Digital atlas of traditional agricultural practices and food processing (Cappers et al., 2016) and the Digital atlas of traditional food made from cereals and milk (Cappers 2018). We have incorporated part of this information in a condensed format in this version of the handbook, including the typologies of fuel, harvesting implements, ovens, and traditional food. The website of the Digital Plant Atlas project (www.plantatlas.eu) offers the opportunity to examine photographs of plant parts and of processes related to agricultural practices and food processing in more detail, using extensive search tools.
Download or read book Plant Ecology written by Mick Crawley and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-01-31 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant ecology is the scientific study of the factors influencing the distribution and abundance of plants. This benchmark text, extremely well received in its first edition, shows how pattern and structure at different levels of plant organization--from ecophysiology through population dynamics to community structure and ecosystem function--are influenced by abiotic factors (eg, climate and soils) and by biotic factors (eg, competition and herbivory). Adopting a dynamic approach, this book combines descriptive text with theoretical models and experimental data. It will be invaluable reading for both student and practising ecologist alike. In this second edition, the structure of the book has been completely revised, moving from the small scale to the large scale, in keeping with contemporary teaching methods. This fresh approach allows consideration of several new and important topics such as plant secondary chemistry, herbivory, sex, and breeding systems. Additional chapters address topical applied issues in plant ecology including global warming, pollution and biodiversity. The latest edition of a very widely adopted textbook Written by a team of leading experts and edited by an international authority in the field
Book Synopsis Practical Plant Ecology by : Arthur George Tansley
Download or read book Practical Plant Ecology written by Arthur George Tansley and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Manual of Plant Ecology by : K. C. Misra
Download or read book Manual of Plant Ecology written by K. C. Misra and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Paleoethnobotany, Third Edition by : Deborah M Pearsall
Download or read book Paleoethnobotany, Third Edition written by Deborah M Pearsall and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall organization and approach of the book to facilitate its use as a textbook. In addition to updates on the comprehensive discussions of macroremains, pollen, and phytoliths, this edition includes a chapter on starch analysis, the newest tool in the paleoethnobotanist's research kit. Other highlights include updated case studies; expanded discussions of deposition and preservation of archaeobotanical remains; updated historical overviews; new and updated techniques and approaches, including insights from experimental and ethnoarchaeological studies; and a current listing of electronic resources. Extensively illustrated, this will be the standard work on paleoethnobotany for a generation.
Author :Ernst-Detlef Schulze Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :9783540208334 Total Pages :716 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (83 download)
Book Synopsis Plant Ecology by : Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Download or read book Plant Ecology written by Ernst-Detlef Schulze and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook covers Plant Ecology from the molecular to the global level. It covers the following areas in unprecedented breadth and depth: - Molecular ecophysiology (stress physiology: light, temperature, oxygen deficiency, drought, salt, heavy metals, xenobiotica and biotic stress factors) - Autecology (whole plant ecology: thermal balance, water, nutrient, carbon relations) - Ecosystem ecology (plants as part of ecosystems, element cycles, biodiversity) - Synecology (development of vegetation in time and space, interactions between vegetation and the abiotic and biotic environment) - Global aspects of plant ecology (global change, global biogeochemical cycles, land use, international conventions, socio-economic interactions) The book is carefully structured and well written: complex issues are elegantly presented and easily understandable. It contains more than 500 photographs and drawings, mostly in colour, illustrating the fascinating subject. The book is primarily aimed at graduate students of biology but will also be of interest to post-graduate students and researchers in botany, geosciences and landscape ecology. Further, it provides a sound basis for those dealing with agriculture, forestry, land use, and landscape management.
Book Synopsis Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities. (MPB-26), Volume 26 by : David Tilman
Download or read book Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities. (MPB-26), Volume 26 written by David Tilman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Fundamentals of Palaeobotany by : Sergei Meyen
Download or read book Fundamentals of Palaeobotany written by Sergei Meyen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been at least ten English-language textbooks of palaeobotany since D. H. Scott published the first edition of Studies inFossilBotany in 1900. Most have been written by scientists who were primarily botanists by training, and were aimed largely at a readership familiar with living plants. They tended to follow a general pattern of an introductory chapter on preservation of plants as fossils, followed by a systematic treatment, group by group. Only Seward in his Plant Life Through the Ages departed from this pattern in presenting a chronological sequence. In the present book, Meyen breaks with?is tradition. Although having a basically biological approach, he reaches out into all aspects of the history of plant life and the wider implication of its study. Only half of the present work deals sequentially with fossil plant groups, treated systematically. The remainder then explores those topics which most other textbooks have incidentally??e generally either ignored or have only mentioned rather problems of naming and classifying fragmentary plant fossils, their ecology; biogeography and palaeoclimatic significance and the contribution that?ey have made to the understanding of living plant morphology, and of the process of evolution.
Book Synopsis Paleoethnobotany by : Deborah M. Pearsall
Download or read book Paleoethnobotany written by Deborah M. Pearsall and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleoethnobotany is the study of human-plant interactions throughout history. This edition presents the diverse approaches and techniques used by anthropologists and botanists in the study of human-plant interactions. It shows why anthropologists must identify plant remains and understand the ecology of human-plant interactions. Additionally, it demonstrates why botanists need to view the plant world from a cultural perspective and understand the strengths and weaknesses of the archaeological record. This edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany follows the steady growth in the quantity and sophistication of paleoethnobotanical research. It features a rewritten chapters on phytolith analysis and a new chapter Integrating Biological Data. It also includes new technqiues, such as residue analysis, and new applciations of old indicators, such as starch grains. An expanded examination of pollen analysis, more examples of environmental reconstruction, and a better balance of international examples increase the versatility of this holistic view of palaeoethnobotany. 4
Download or read book Ecology of Plants written by Eug Warming and published by Daya Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Work Studies In Detail The Various Plant-Communities And Analyses How Plants Or Plant-Communities Adjust Their Forms And Modes Of Behaviour To Different Actually Operating Factors, Such As The Amounts Of Available Water, Heat, Light, Nutriment Etc. After An Introduction To Ecological Plant-Geography And Ecological Botany, The External Factors Affecting The Plant S Economy And Their Impact Upon The Structure Of The Plant, Its Life Duration And The Topographical Distribution Of Species, Has Been Discussed In Section I Of The Volume. Further, The Various Plant-Communities Have Been Divided Into 13 Ecological Classes On The Basis Of Edaphic And Climatic Distinctions And Have Been Treated In General In Sections Ii And Iii, Followed By Their Specific Treatment In Sections Iv To Svi. Before Coming To A Close, The Book Has Another Useful Section That Deals With The Struggle Between Plant-Communities, An Extensive Bibliography And Also A Comprehensive Index That Makes References Hunting Easier. Already Translated Into Various Languages, This Pioneering Work On Ecological Plant-Geography Should Be A Great Attraction For Every Study And Scholar Of Botany. Contents Introduction: Floristic And Oecological Plant-Geography, Growth-Forms, Plant-Communities, Plan Of This Book; Section I: Oecological Factors And Their Action; Light, Heat, Atmospheric Humidity And Precipitations, Movements Of The Air, Nature Of The Nutrient Substratum, Structure Of The Soil, Air In The Soil, Water In The Soil, Temperature Of Soil, Depth Of The Soil, The Upper Layers Of The Soil And The Subsoil, Nutriment In Soil, Kinds Of Soil, Are The Chemical Or The Physical Characters Of Soil The More Important?, The Effect Of A Non-Living Covering Over Vegetation, Effect Of A Living Vegetable Covering On Soil, The Activity Of Animals And Plants In Soil, Exposure, Orographic And Other Factors; Section Ii: Communal Life Of Organisms; Reciprocal Relations Among Organisms, Interference By Man, Symbiosis Of Plants With Animals, Symbiosis Of Plants With One Another, Mutualism, Commensalism, Plant-Communities; Section Iii: Adaptations Of Aquatic And Terrestrial Plants Oecological Classification; Aquatic And Terrestrial Plants, Adaptations Of Water-Plants (Hydrophytes), Adaptations Of Land-Plants, Regulation Of Transpiration In Land-Plant, Absorption Of Water By Land-Plants, Storage Of Water By Land-Plants Water-Reservoirs, Other Structural Characters And Growth-Forms Of Land-Plants, And Especially Of Xerophytes, Oecological Classification, Physiognomy Of Vegetation, Formations Associations Varieties Of Associations; Section Iv: Hydrophytes Formations Of Aquatic Plants; Oecological Factors, Formations Of Aquatic Plants, Plankton-Formation, Cryoplankton, Vegetation Of Ice And Snow, Hydrocharid-Formation Of Pleuston, Lithophilous Benthos, Benthos Of Loose Soil; Section V: Helophytes Marsh-Plants; Adaptations Formations, Reed-Swamp Of Reed-Formation, Bush-Swamp And Forest-Swamp Of Fresh Water; Section Vi: Oxylophytes Formations On Sour (Acid) Soil; Xeromorphy Formations, Low-Moor Formation, Grass-Heath, Tussock Formation, High-Moor Formation, Moss-Tundra Or Moss-Heath, Lichen-Tundra Of Lichen-Heath, Dwarf-Shrub Heath, Bush And Forest On Acid Humus Soil; Section Vii: Halophytes Formations On Saline Soil; Introductory General Remarks On Halophytes, Adaptations Of Halophytes, Lothophilous Halophytes, Psammophilous Halophytes, Pelophilous Halophytes, Salt-Swamp And Salt-Desert, Littoral Swamp-Forest, Mangrove; Section Viii: Lithophytes, Formations On Rocks; Rocky Country, Lithophytes, Chasmophytes, Formations On Shingle And Rubble, Section Ix: Psychrophytes, Formations On Cold Soil; Climatic Conditions In Subglacial Fell-Fields, Adaptation Of Species In Subglacial Fell-Fields, Subglacial Fell-Field Formations; Section X: Psammophytes, Formations On Sand And Gravel; Oecological Factors, Formations, Shifting Or White, Sand Dunes, Stationary Or Grey, Sand-Dune, Sand-Fields, Dune-Heath, Dune-Bushland, Dune-Forest, Other Examples Of Psammophilous Vegetation; Section Xi: Eremophytes Formations On Desert And Steppe; Oecological Factors, Formations, Desert, Shrub-Steppe, Grass-Steppe, Sibljak; Section Xii: Chersophytes, Formations On Waste Land; Waste Herbage, Bushland On Dry Soil; Section Xiii: Psilophytes, Savannah-Formations; Savannah-Formations, Thorny Savannah, True Savannah, Savannah-Forest; Section Xiv: Sclerophyllous Formations, Bush And Forest; Sclerophyllous Vegetation And Formations, Garigue, Tomillares, Maqui: Sclerophyllous Scrub, Sclerophyllous Forest; Section Xv: Coinferous Formations, Forest; Evergreen Coniferae; Section Xvi: Mesophytes; Mesophytic Vegetation And Formations, Arctic And Alpine Mat-Grassland And Mat-Herbage, Meadow, Pasture On Cultivated Soil, Mesophytic Bushland, Deciduous Dicotylous Forest, Evergreen Dicotylous Forest; Section Xvii: Struggle Between Plant Communities; Conditions Of The Struggle, The Peopling Of New Soil, Changes In Vegetation Induced By Slow Changes In Soil Fully Occupied By Plants, Change Of Vegetation Without Change Of Climate Or Of Soil, The Weapons Of Species, Rare Species, Origin Of Species.
Book Synopsis A handbook of systematic botany by : Eugenius Warming
Download or read book A handbook of systematic botany written by Eugenius Warming and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A handbook of systematic botany" by Eugenius Warming (translated by Michael Cresse Potter). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis Foundations of Plant Geography by : Stanley Adair Cain
Download or read book Foundations of Plant Geography written by Stanley Adair Cain and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Introduction to Plant Ecology by : Sir Arthur George Tansley
Download or read book Introduction to Plant Ecology written by Sir Arthur George Tansley and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Introduction to Plant Ecology, for the Use of Teachers and Students by : George Henslow
Download or read book Introduction to Plant Ecology, for the Use of Teachers and Students written by George Henslow and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
