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- Fully revised and updated 2nd edition
- Covers all major tropical ecosystems from tropical forests to savannas, salinas, inselbergs and páramos
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
In spite of international agreements at the political level not much has changed since the late 1980s in terms of reducing the speed of destruction of original tropical environments.
However, since the publication of the first edition ten years ago, international research efforts in physiological ecology of plants in the tropics has increased enormously in quantity and quality. In some fields advances were more substantial than in others. New approaches came up in remote sensing and at the other end of the scope in some areas molecular biology was particularly developed regarding ecological performance of tropical plants, e.g. in understanding the adaptation of resurrection plants to the extreme habitat of inselbergs.
The wealth of new information made it necessary to break large chapters down into smaller ones. Tropical forests which occupy about half of the entire volume of the book were now arranged in 5 chapters covering structure and function under the influence of environmental cues and including epiphytes and mangroves as part of the tropical forest complex. Savannas were now treated in two chapters. Coastal salinas have been combined with a new section on the Brazilian restingas in a chapter on coastal sand plains.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ulrich Lüttge is also series editor of our series "Progress in Botany", and Editor-in-Chief of our journal "Trees - Structure and Function".
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants
Authors: Ulrich Lüttge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71793-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-71792-8Published: 07 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43964-3Published: 02 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-71793-5Published: 14 December 2007
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 458
Topics: Plant Physiology, Plant Ecology, Plant Sciences, Ecology, Human Physiology