Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press.
Now in full color, this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The Ecology of Plants incorporates many new illustrations and hundreds of new references. The text covers a range of topics that you might find in a general ecology textbook, but with the focus on the interactions between plants and their environment over a range of scales. Some of the subjects covered are unique to plants, such as photosynthesis and the ecology of plant—soil interactions; other topics, such as
resource and mate acquisition, emphasize the distinctive ways plants (in contrast to mobile animals) deal with their environments.
The book is unusual in emphasizing the importance of evolutionary and other historical processes for current ecology. Throughout the text, human environmental influences are discussed.
While the book is written for an undergraduate college course in plant ecology, the engaging style, thorough coverage of the field, and contemporary perspective make it accessible and useful to others as well, from graduate students in conservation biology to evolutionary biologists and resource managers.
- ISBN13 9780878932948
- Publish Date 17 July 2006 (first published 1 January 2002)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 25 September 2020
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Edition 2nd ed. 2006
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 540
- Language English