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Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology

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Editors:
  1. Stephen S. Mulkey

    1. Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

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  2. Robin L. Chazdon

    1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

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  3. Alan P. Smith
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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Resource Acquisition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Photosynthesis

      1. Photosynthetic Responses of Tropical Forest Plants to Contrasting Light Environments
        • Robin L. Chazdon, Robert W. Pearcy, David W. Lee, Ned Fetcher
        Pages 5-55
      2. CAM and C4 Plants in the Humid Tropics
        • Ernesto Medina
        Pages 56-88
      3. Diel Patterns of CO2 Exchange in Rainforest Canopy Plants
        • Gerhard Zotz, Klaus Winter
        Pages 89-113
      4. Scaling up from Leaves to Whole Plants and Canopies for Photosynthetic Gas Exchange
        • Frederick C. Meinzer, Guillermo Goldstein
        Pages 114-138
      5. On the Relationship of Plant Geometry to Photosynthetic Response
        • Thomas J. Herbert
        Pages 139-161
      6. Photosynthetic Characteristics of Tropical Trees Along Successional Gradients
        • Silvia Strauss-Deberiedetti, Fakhri A. Bazzaz
        Pages 162-186

    3. Water Relations

      1. Influence of Seasonal Drought on the Carbon Balance of Tropical Forest Plants
        • Stephen S. Mulkey, S. Joseph Wright
        Pages 187-216
      2. Hydraulic Architecture of Woody Tropical Plants
        • Melvin T. Tyree, Frank W. Ewers
        Pages 217-243
      3. Evaluating Aspects of Water Economy and Photosynthetic Performance with Stable Isotopes from Water and Organic Matter
        • Guillermo Goldstein, Frederick C. Meinzer, Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg, Paula Jackson, Jaime Cavelier, N. Michele Holbrook
        Pages 244-267

    4. Acquisition of Soil Resources

      1. Root Growth and Rhizosphere Interactions in Tropical Forests
        • Robert L. Sanford Jr., Elvira Cuevas
        Pages 268-300

  3. Ecophysiological Aspects of Species Interactions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-303
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    2. Anti-Herbivore Defenses of Young Tropical Leaves: Physiological Constraints and Ecological Trade-offs

      • Phyllis D. Coley, Thomas A. Kursor
      Pages 305-336

    3. Causes and Consequences of Epiphyll Colonization

      • Phyllis D. Coley, Thomas A. Kursar
      Pages 337-362

    4. Physiology of Tropical Vines and Hemiepiphytes: Plants that Climb Up and Plants that Climb Down

      • N. Michele Holbrook, Francis E. Putz
      Pages 363-394

  4. Ecophysiological Patterns across Tropical Forest Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 395-397
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    2. Environmental Factors and Ecophysiological Processes along Altitudinal Gradients in Wet Tropical Mountains

      • Jaime Cavelier
      Pages 399-439

    3. Phenological Responses to Seasonality in Tropical Forest Plants

      • S. Joseph Wright
      Pages 440-460

    4. Comparative Ecophysiology of Mangrove Forest and Tropical Lowland Moist Rainforest

      • Marilyn C. Ball
      Pages 461-496
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About this book

Taking readers out of the laboratory and into the humid tropical forests, this comprehensive volume explores the most recent advances occurring in tropical plant ecophysiology. Drawing on the knowledge of leading practitioners in the field, this book synthesizes a broad range of information on the ways in which tropical plants adapt to their environment and demonstrate unique physiological processes.
This book is arranged into four sections which cover resource acquisition, species interactions, ecophysiological patterns within and among tropical forest communities, and the ecophysiology of forest regeneration. These sections describe plant function in relation to ecology across a wide spectrum of tropical forest species and growth forms. How do different species harvest and utilize resources from heterogeneous tropical environments? How do patterns of functional diversity reflect the overwhelming taxonomic and morphological diversity of tropical forest plants? Such fundamental questions are examined in rich detail. To illuminate the discussions further, every chapter in this book features an agenda for future research, extensive cross referencing, timely references, and the integration of ecophysiology and the demography of tropical species where the data exist. Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology provides plant scientists, botanists, researchers, and graduate students with important insights into the behavior of tropical plants. Biologists and foresters interested in tropical ecology and plant physiological ecologists will also benefit from this authoritative and timely resource.

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...this book is packed with valuable information and is a must for all tropical ecologists. - Trends in Ecology and Evolution; ...this book is packed with valuable information and is a must for all tropical ecologists. - Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

    Stephen S. Mulkey

  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

    Robin L. Chazdon

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology

  • Editors: Stephen S. Mulkey, Robin L. Chazdon, Alan P. Smith

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1163-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Chapman & Hall 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-03571-5Published: 30 June 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8493-2Published: 26 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-1163-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 675

  • Topics: Ecology, Plant Physiology

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