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The adaptive geometry of trees

Title
The adaptive geometry of trees / by Henry S. Horn.
Author
Horn, Henry S., 1941-2019.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1971.

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Description
xiii, 144 pages : illustrations, graphs, tables; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Monographs in population biology ; 3
Uniform Title
Monographs in population biology ; 3.
Subject
  • Trees > Growth
  • Plant succession
  • Trees > Adaptation
  • Trees
  • Adaptation (Biology)
  • Trees
  • Adaptation, Biological
  • trees (woody plants)
  • Plant succession
  • Trees > Adaptation
  • Trees > Growth
  • Pflanzenmorphologie
  • Theorie
  • Gestalt
  • Baum
  • Trees > Ecology
  • Forest ecology
  • Trees > Anatomy and histology
  • Morphology
  • Arbres > Adaptation
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 135-140.
Contents
Introduction -- Measurement of light intensity -- Analysis of a forest succession -- Theoretical strategies of leaf distribution -- Photosynthetic response of the strategies -- Measurement of actual strategies -- Speculations on the shapes of tree crowns -- On the relation between theory and reality.
ISBN
  • 0691080895
  • 9780691080895
  • 0691023557
  • 9780691023557
LCCN
70140279
OCLC
  • ocm00143685
  • 143685
  • SCSB-13552257
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library