Plant Ecology

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Pub. Date: 2005-04-22
Publisher(s): Springer Nature
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Summary

Plant Ecology provides a unique and up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the field, making it ideally suitable as a textbook and reference work for students, researchers and practitioners.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(4)
Stress Physiology
5(248)
Environment as Stress Factor: Stress Physiology of Plants
7(16)
Abiotic and Biotic Environments Cause Stress
7(2)
Specific and Unspecific Reactions to Stress
9(2)
Stress Concepts
11(2)
Perception of Stress and Creation of Signals
13(3)
How to Measure Stress on Plants?
16(1)
Production of Stress-Tolerant Plants by Genetic Engineering?
16(3)
Gene Silencing
19(4)
Light
23(22)
Visible Light
24(13)
UV Radiation
37(8)
Temperature
45(54)
Temperature Ranges and Temperatures Limiting Life
45(3)
Temperature-Dependent Biochemical Processes, Q10 and Activation Energy
48(1)
Temperature and Stability/Function of Biomembranes
49(1)
Heat (Hyperthermy)
50(11)
Cold
61(11)
Frost
72(22)
Concluding Comments
94(5)
Oxygen Deficiency (Anaerobiosis and Hypoxia)
99(18)
Energy Metabolism of Plants Lacking Oxygen
101(4)
Anatomical-Morphological Changes During Hypoxia
105(9)
Post-anoxic Stress
114(3)
Water Deficiency (Drought)
117(28)
Water Balance of Drought-Stressed Cells
119(4)
Cellular Reactions to Drought Stress
123(12)
CAM (Crassulacean Acid Metabolism)
135(5)
Anatomical-Morphological Adaptation to Drought
140(5)
Salt Stress (Osmotic Stress)
145(30)
Physiological Effects of Salt Stress (NaCl)
146(3)
Adaptive Responses of Plant Cells to Salt Stress
149(22)
Avoidance of Salt Stress
171(4)
Heavy Metals
175(20)
Availability of Heavy Metals
176(1)
Heavy Metal Deficiency -- Example Iron
176(6)
Stress by Heavy Metal Ion Toxicity
182(2)
Reaction of Plants to Excess Supply of Heavy Metals
184(7)
Heavy Metal Resistance (Tolerance)
191(1)
Heavy Metal Extraction and Soil Decontamination by Plants (Phytomining, Phytoremediation)
191(4)
Aluminium
195(12)
Forms of Aluminium Available to Plants
196(1)
Aluminium Toxicity
196(4)
Al3+ Resistance
200(3)
Al3+ Tolerance
203(4)
Xenobiotica
207(28)
Herbicides
210(5)
Gaseous Air Pollutants
215(20)
Biotic Stress: Herbivory, Infection, Allelopathy
235(18)
Signal Chain in Wounding
235(11)
Pathogen Attack and Defence
246(4)
Allelopathy
250(3)
Autecology: Whole Plant Ecology
253(144)
Thermal Balance of Plants
255(22)
The Atmosphere as Habitat
257(6)
Climate of Air Near the Ground
263(6)
Energy Balance of Leaves
269(1)
Adaptation to Temperature Extremes
270(7)
Water Relations of Plants
277(36)
Water as an Environmental Factor
277(6)
Water Transport in the Plant
283(13)
Regulation of Stomata
296(7)
Transpiration of Leaves and Canopies
303(10)
Nutrient Relations of Plants
313(34)
Availability of Soil Nutrients and Ion Uptake
313(11)
Nitrogen Nutrition
324(11)
Sulfur Nutrition
335(2)
Phosphate Nutrition
337(1)
Nutrition with Alkaline Cations
338(9)
Carbon Balance
347(50)
Net Photosynthesis: Physiological and Physical Basis
347(10)
Specific Leaf Area, Nitrogen Content and Photosynthetic Capacity
357(4)
Response of Photosynthesis to Environmental Factors
361(12)
Growth and Storage
373(6)
C and N Balance in Different Types of Plants
379(18)
Ecology of Ecosystems
397(68)
The Ecosystem Concept
399(4)
What is an Ecosystem?
400(1)
Boundaries of Ecosystems
400(1)
Compartmentalisation
401(1)
System Characteristics
401(2)
Processes in Stands and Ecosystems
403(22)
Self-Thinning
403(3)
Reversible and Irreversible Site Changes Related to Resource Exploitation
406(3)
Complexity and Non-linear Behaviour
409(2)
Number of Species and Habitat Partitioning
411(6)
Disturbances
417(8)
The Biogeochemical Cycles
425(24)
Water Turnover
426(1)
Carbon Turnover
427(11)
Nitrogen Cycle
438(6)
Cation Turnover
444(5)
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes
449(6)
Case Studies at the Scale of Ecosystems
455(10)
Soil Acidification and Forest Damage
456(4)
Effect of Deciduous and Coniferous Forests on Processes in Ecosystems
460(2)
Plants of Limestone and Siliceous Rocks
462(3)
Syndynamics, Synchorology, Synecology
465(158)
Historic-Genetic Development of Phytocenoses and Their Dynamics
467(74)
History of Vegetation to the End of the Tertiary
469(3)
Change of Climate and Vegetation in the Pleistocene
472(3)
Late and Postglacial Climate and Vegetation History
475(4)
Changes in Vegetation Because of Human Influence
479(28)
Basis of General Vegetation Dynamics
507(27)
Stability of Plant Communities
534(7)
Synchorology: Basis of Spatial Distribution of Plants
541(38)
Distribution of Plants
542(6)
Basis of Spatial Distribution (Phytogeography)
548(7)
Relationship Between Area and Species
555(7)
Biodiversity
562(17)
Interactions Between Vegetation and Abiotic and Biotic Environments -- Synecology
579(44)
Influences of Vegetation on the Site
580(5)
Interactions Between Plants and Animals
585(17)
Interactions Between Plants
602(21)
Global Aspects of Plant Ecology
623(56)
Global Change and Global Institutions
625(8)
Global Material Cycles
633(8)
Water Cycle
633(2)
Carbon Cycle
635(1)
Nitrogen Cycle
636(2)
Sulfur Cycle
638(3)
Human Influence on Carbon Balance and Significance for Global Climate
641(8)
Significance of Changes in Land Use for Carbon Cycles
649(14)
Land Use and CO2 Emissions
649(2)
The Kyoto Protocol: Attempts To Manage the Global Carbon Cycle
651(8)
Importance of Climate Change for Europe
659(4)
Influence of Human Activities on Biodiversity
663(6)
Decrease in Biodiversity
663(6)
Socio-economic Interactions
669(10)
Syndromes
670(3)
Evaluation of Risks to Biodiversity in Ecosystems
673(6)
Subject Index 679

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