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Exploitation of environmental heterogeneity by plants : ecophysiological processes above- and belowground

Title
  1. Exploitation of environmental heterogeneity by plants : ecophysiological processes above- and belowground / edited by Martyn M. Caldwell, Robert W. Pearcy.
Published by
  1. San Diego : Academic Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional authors
  1. Caldwell, Martyn M., 1941-
  2. Pearcy, R. W. (Robert W.), 1941-
Description
  1. xvii, 429 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Physiological ecology
Uniform title
  1. Physiological ecology.
Subject
  1. Plant ecophysiology
Contents
  1. 1. The Role of Plasticity in Exploiting Environmental Heterogeneity / J. P. Grime -- 2. The Physical Nature of Solar Radiation in Heterogeneous Canopies: Spatial and Temporal Attributes / Dennis Baldocchi and Serge Collineau -- 3. Light Gaps: Sensing the Light Opportunities in Highly Dynamic Canopy Environments / Carlos L. Ballare -- 4. Canopy Gaps: Competitive Light Interception and Economic Space Filling - A Matter of Whole-Plant Allocation / Manfred Kuppers -- 5. Photosynthetic Acclimation to Changing Light Environments: Scaling from the Leaf to the Whole Plant / Robert W. Pearcy and Daniel A. Sims -- 6. Photosynthetic Utilization of Sunflecks: A Temporally Patchy Resource on a Time Scale of Seconds to Minutes / Robert W. Pearcy, Robin L. Chazdon, Louis J. Gross and Keith A. Mott -- 7. Signals for Seeds to Sense and Respond to Gaps / Carlos Vazquez-Yanes and Alma Orozco-Segovia.
  2. 8. Assessing the Heterogeneity of Belowground Resources: Quantifying Pattern and Scale / G. Philip Robertson and Katherine L. Gross -- 9. Causes of Soil Nutrient Heterogeneity at Different Scales / John M. Stark -- 10. Root-Soil Responses to Water Pulses in Dry Environments / Park S. Nobel -- 11. Architecture and Biomass Allocation as Components of the Plastic Response of Root Systems to Soil Heterogeneity / A. H. Fitter -- 12. Exploiting Nutrients in Fertile Soil Microsites / Martyn M. Caldwell -- 13. Coping with Environmental Heterogeneity: The Physiological Ecology of Tree Seedling Regeneration across the Gap-Understory Continuum / F. A. Bazzaz and P. M. Wayne -- 14. Spatial Heterogeneity at Small Scales and How Plants Respond to It / Graham Bell and Martin J. Lechowicz.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.