Research Catalog

Title

Seed germination in desert plants / Yitzchak Gutterman.

Author

Gutterman, Y. (Yitzchak), 1936-

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1993.

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Details

Description

xiii, 253 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

Adaptations of desert organisms

Uniform Title

Adaptations of desert organisms

Subject

• Desert plants > Adaptation
• Desert plants > Seeds
• Desert plants > Ecology
• Germination
• Seeds
• Ecology
• Adaptation (Biology)
• Plants
• Seeds
• Ecology
• Adaptation, Biological
• ecology
• vegetation
• Desert plants > Adaptation
• Desert plants > Ecology
• Germination
• Keimung
• Samen
• Samenkeimung
• Umweltfaktor
• Wüstenpflanzen
• Plant populations > Israel > Negev
• Desert plants > Israel > Negev
• Deserts > Research
• Plantes des déserts > Écologie
• Plantes des déserts > Adaptation
• Plantes des déserts > Semences

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-246) and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Negev Desert of Israel and Other Hot Deserts of the World: Classification According to Quantities, Distribution and Seasons of Rain. Their Influences on the Germination of Desert Plants -- 1.1. Classification of Deserts of Semi-Arid and Arid Zones and the Season of Rain -- 1.2. Abiotic Environmental Factors of the Negev Desert -- 1.3. Some Biotic Factors Affecting the Vegetation of the Negev Desert -- 1.4. Autecological Adaptations, Life Forms and the Annual Cycle of Desert Angiospermae -- 2. Phenotypic Effects on Seeds During Development -- 2.2. Position Effects -- 2.3. Age Effects -- 2.4. Environmental Effects -- 2.5. Polymorphic Seeds and Germination -- 3. Seed Dispersal and Seed Predation of Plants Species in the Negev Desert -- 3.1. Annual Cycle of Seed Maturation and Dispersal of Some of the Common Species in the Negev Desert Highlands -- 3.2. Seed Maturation and Dispersal in Summer -- 3.3. Seed Maturation in Summer and Dispersal by Rain in Winter -- 3.4. Seed Maturation in Summer and Germination in Situ (Atelechory) in Winter -- 3.5. Seeds that Mature and are Dispersed in Winter -- 3.6. Heterocarpy and Species Survival -- 4. Storage Conditions Affecting the Germinability of Seeds in the Seed Bank -- 4.2. Seed Internal and Environmental Factors During Storage Affecting Germination -- 5. Environmental Factors During Seed Imbibition Affecting Germination -- 5.2. Water -- 5.3. Period of Wetting for Germination -- 5.4. Temperature -- 5.5. Light and Germination -- 5.6. Annual Rhythm Regulating Seed Germination -- 5.7. Mass Germination and Seedling Emergence from Below the Soil Crust -- 6. Germination, the Survival of Seedlings and Competition -- 6.2. 'Opportunistic' or 'Cautious' Strategy. Low or High Chance of Seedling Survival -- 6.3. Depressions and Porcupine Diggings as Favourable Micro-Habitats in the Desert
• 6.4. Drought Tolerance and the Survival of Seedlings -- 6.5. Mass Germination and Age Groups Replace Dead Plants. 7. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 3540525629
• 9783540525622
• 0387525629
• 9780387525624

LCCN

93029023

OCLC

• ocm28547360
• 28547360
• SCSB-2017477

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library