Research Catalog

Title

Terrestrial plant ecology / Michael G. Barbour, Jack H. Burk, Wanna D. Pitts.

Author

Barbour, Michael G.

Publication

Menlo Park, CA : Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co., c1980.

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Additional Authors

• Burk, Jack H., 1942-
• Pitts, Wanna D., 1932-

Description

xi, 604 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• Benjamin/Cummings series in the life sciences.
• The Benjamin/Cummings series in the life sciences

Subject

• Plant ecology
• Plant ecology > North America

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [546]-583.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Background and basic concepts -- Introduction -- Brief history of plant ecology -- Species in the environmental complex -- Population dynamics and resource allocation -- Species interactions: competition and amensalism -- Species interactions: commensalism, protocooperation, mutualism, and herbivory -- Community as an ecological unit -- Community concepts and attributes -- Methods of sampling the plant community -- Methods of describing the plant community -- Succession -- Productivity -- Mineral cycles -- Environmental factors -- Light and photosynthesis -- Temperature -- Fire -- Soil -- Water -- Plant water relations -- Major vegetation types of north america

ISBN

0805305408 :

LCCN

^^^79023591^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library