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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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About this book
This completely updated and revised second edition provides a unique and up-to-date treatment of all aspects of plant ecology, making it an ideal textbook and reference work for students, researchers and practitioners.
More than 500 high-quality images and drawings, mostly in colour, aid readers’ understanding of various key topics, while the clear structure and straightforward style make it user friendly and particularly useful for students. Written by leading experts, it offers authoritative information, including relevant references.
While Plant Ecology primarily addresses graduate students in biology and ecology, it is also a valuable resource for post-graduate students and researchers in botany, environmental sciences and landscape ecology, as well as all those whose study or work touches on agriculture, forestry, land use, and landscape management.
Key Topics:
- Molecular ecophysiology (molecular stress physiology: light, temperature, oxygen deficiency, water deficit (drought), unfavorable soil mineral conditions, biotic stress)
- Physiological and biophysical plant ecology (ecophysiology of plants: thermal balance, water, nutrient, carbon relations)
- Ecosystem ecology (characteristics of ecosystems, approaches how to study and how to model terrestrial ecosystems, biogeochemical fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems)
- Community ecology and biological diversity (development of plant communities in time and space, interactions between plants and plant communities with the abiotic and the biotic environment, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning)
- Global ecology (global biogeochemical cycles, Dynamic Global Vegetation Models, global change and terrestrial ecosystems)
Authors and Affiliations
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Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
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Department of Plant Physiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Erwin Beck, Stephan Clemens
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Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Nina Buchmann
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Department of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Klaus Müller-Hohenstein
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Chair of Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
About the authors
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jena, Germany
dschulze@bgc-jena.mpg.de
Erwin Beck
University of Bayreuth
Department of Plant Physiology
Bayreuth, Germany
erwin.beck@uni-bayreuth.de
Nina Buchmann
ETH Zurich
Institute of Agricultural Science
Zurich, Switzerland
nina.buchmann@usys.ethz.ch
Stephan Clemens
University of Bayreuth
Department of Plant Physiology
Bayreuth, Germany
stephan.clemens@uni-bayreuth.de
Klaus Müller-Hohenstein
University of Bayreuth
Department of Biogeography
Bayreuth, Germany
kumueho@t-online.de
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
University of Freiburg
Institute of Biology II
Freiburg, Germany
michael.scherer@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Ecology
Authors: Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Erwin Beck, Nina Buchmann, Stephan Clemens, Klaus Müller-Hohenstein, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56233-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56231-4Published: 09 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-56233-8Published: 21 November 2019
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXI, 926
Number of Illustrations: 53 b/w illustrations, 527 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Ecology, Plant Physiology, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Climate Change