Plants at the Margin

Ecological Limits and Climate Change

R. M. M. Crawford (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

494 Seiten

2008
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-62309-4 (ISBN)

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Beautifully illustrated examination of effects of climate change on plants in marginal areas. Including photographs from the Arctic to the Antarctic, treelines to mountain tops, along coastal and water margins, heathlands, bogs and deserts, its geographical spread gives it global appeal to students and researchers of biological and environmental disciplines.

Margins are by their very nature environmentally unstable - does it therefore follow that plant populations adapted for life in such areas will prove to be pre-adapted to withstand the changes that may be brought about by a warmer world? Biogeography, demography, reproductive biology, physiology and genetics all provide cogent explanations as to why limits occur where they do, and the purpose of this book is to bring together these different avenues of enquiry. Crawford's numerous beautiful illustrations of plants in their natural habitats remind us that the environment remains essential to our understanding of plants and their function. This book is suited to students, researchers and anyone with an interest in the impact of climate change on our world.

R. M. M. Crawford has taught and researched at the University of St Andrews since 1962, pursuing the study of plant responses to the environment in a wide range of habitats in Scotland, Scandinavia, North and South America and the Arctic. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Linnean Society and an associate member of the Belgian Royal Academy.

1. Recognizing margins; 2. Biodiversity in marginal areas; 3. Resource acquisition in marginal habitats; 4. Reproduction at the periphery; 5. Arctic and sub-Arctic treelines and the tundra taiga interface; 6. Plant survival in a warmer Arctic; 7. Land-plants at coastal margins; 8. Survival at the water's edge; 9. Woody plants at the margin; 10. Plants at high altitudes; 11. Man at the margins; 12. Summary and conclusions.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2008
Zusatzinfo	13 Tables, unspecified; 33 Line drawings, unspecified; 366 Line drawings, color
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	195 x 252 mm
Gewicht	1518 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
ISBN-10	0-521-62309-X / 052162309X
ISBN-13	978-0-521-62309-4 / 9780521623094
Zustand	Neuware