Overview
- Available in both print and online
- The online text will be regularly updated to enable the reference to remain a useful authoritative resource
- Contains ten comprehensive volumes, with approximately 20-30 chapters per volume
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Plant Sciences (PLANTSCI, volume 8)
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Table of contents (21 entries)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
In this book, plant biology is considered from the perspective of plants and their surrounding environment, including both biotic and abiotic interactions. The intended audience is undergraduate students in the middle or final phases of their programs of study. Topics are developed to provide a rudimentary understanding of how plant-environment interactions span multiple spatiotemporal scales, and how this rudimentary knowledge can be applied to understand the causes of ecosystem vulnerabilities in the face of global climate change and expansion of natural resource use by human societies. In all chapters connections are made from smaller to larger scales of ecological organization, providing a foundation for understanding plant ecology. Where relevant, environmental threats to ecological systems are identified and future research needs are discussed. As future generations take on the responsibility for managing ecosystem goods and services, one of the most effective resources that can be passed on is accumulated knowledge of how organisms, populations, species, communities and ecosystems function and interact across scales of organization. This book is intended to provide some of that knowledge, and hopefully provide those generations with the ability to avoid some of the catastrophic environmental mistakes that prior generations have made.
Reviews
“This edited volume begins with eight introductory chapters intended to cover the breadth of these potential interactions and the importance of scale when examining interactions in both space and time. … Each chapter includes a useful abstract and most end with suggested further readings in addition to references, making this book a useful tool for students looking to delve deeper into introduced topics. … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, upper-division undergraduates, and graduate students.” (A. L. Jacobsen, Choice, Vol. 52 (10), June, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Russell K. Monson, PhD
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecology and the Environment
Editors: Russell K. Monson
Series Title: The Plant Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7501-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-7500-2Published: 02 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-7501-9Published: 01 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 659
Number of Illustrations: 91 b/w illustrations, 105 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Sciences, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Pathology