Plant Ecology

In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the morphology, evolutionary diversification and implications for the environmen...

The role of mycorrhizal symbiosis has been usually related to its impact on the plant mineral nutrition and consequently on the development of the ...

An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe.In his follow-up to the bestselling Aro...

An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe.In his follow-up to the bestselling Aro...

Just like humans, animals and plants suffer from infectious diseases, which can critically threaten biodiversity. This book describes key studies t...

Plant remains can preserve a critical part of history of life on Earth. While telling the fascinating evolutionary story of plants and vegetation a...

Towns and villages are sometimes viewed as minor, even quaint, spots, whereas this book boldly reconceptualizes these places as important dynamic e...

This volume sits at the cross-roads of a number of areas of scientific interest that, in the past, have largely kept themselves separate - agricult...

Today there is no place on Earth that does not harbour invasive exotic species. Invasive plants and animals can be found on every continent, includ...

Ever wonder if plants sleep or why their leaves are shaped a certain way? The inner workings of the plants you love are revealed and celebrated in ...

The fynbos region is one of the most spectacularly diverse places on Earth. This is not an idle statement. When one considers the diversity of inse...

The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plant Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most...

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This book addresses an important problem in ecology: how are communities assembled from species pools? This pressing question underlies a broad arr...

In this book, plant biology is considered from the perspective of plants and their surrounding environment, including both biotic and abiotic inter...

Grassland ecosystems are deeply affected by human activities and need appropriate management to optimise trade-offs between ecosystem functions and...

Production of food fibre and fuel is vital for humanity, and as the world population continues to rise, demands on these resources is ever increasi...

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has ...

'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial ...

As with the previous volume, the aim of this book is to gather and synthesise the research conducted on the biology (early life history stages, age...

Beginning systematically with the fundamentals, the fully-updated third edition of this popular graduate textbook provides an understanding of all ...

This book has been written in an attempt to advance people''''s knowledge on the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) crop in tropical and sub-tropical re...

The problem of biodiversity in the monsoon zone is connected to species adaptations, speciation, florogenesis, plant community formation, vegetatio...

Many native coastal plant species play a major role in the formation of sand dunes and also protect shoreline areas from erosion. These plants ofte...

Ecology is capturing the popular imagination like never before, with issues such as climate change, species extinctions, and habitat destruction be...

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has ...

Despite a century of study by ecologists, recovery following disturbances (succession) is not fully understood. This book provides the first global...

Plant leaves collectively represent the largest above-ground surface area of plant material in virtually all environments. Their optical properties...

How do you record the wildlife in a wood? This book explains ways to record the flora and fauna found in woodland and outlines the sources you can ...

Graph theory can be applied to ecological questions in many ways, and more insights can be gained by expanding the range of graph theoretical conce...

The Pictorial Atlas of Soilborne Fungal Plant Pathogens and Diseases describes the soilborne fungal diseases caused by Oomycetes, Zygomycetes, Asco...

The rate of species and natural habitat loss across our planet is steadily accelerating. This book argues that existing practises of plant conserva...

A large-format, heavily illustrated look at the wide adaptability and rich diversity of the plant kingdomAll the plants around us today are descend...

The rate of species and natural habitat loss across our planet is steadily accelerating. This book argues that existing practises of plant conserva...

Shallow subterranean habitats (SSHs) are areas of habitable space that are less than 10 m in depth from the surface. These range from large areas s...

This book presents current research in the study of the ecology, economic uses and environmental impacts of algae. Topics include ultraviolet irrad...

This book covers a topic of current interest in flora, and it can be considered as a specialised work that will not go out of date for a long time....

An invasive species (alternatively known as an alien, exotic, injurious, introduced or naturalised, non-native, non-indigenous, nuisance or noxio...