Plant Resource Allocation (Physiological Ecology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0120834901 ISBN 13: 9780120834907

Publisher: Academic Press, 1997

Synopsis

Plant Resource Allocation is an exploration of the latest insights into the theory and functioning of plant resource allocation. An international team of physiological ecologists has prepared chapters devoted to the fundamental topics of resource allocation.

• Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of resource allocation in plants
• All contributors are leaders in their respective fields

About this title

From the Back Cover

Plants carry on many independent functions simultaneously-they absorb different nutrients, they convert light into stored energy, they grow, and they reproduce. Plants do not perform these function passively. Resources must be apportioned or allocated, according to conflicting schedules and priorities, to each of these and other activities. This book is an exploration of the latest insights into the theory and functioning of plant resource allocation. An international team of ecologists has prepared chapters devoted to the fundamental topics of resource allocation. Anyone interested in plant ecology, physiological ecology, crop science, and related disciplines in plant and environmental sciences will want this important reference.

Review

"...a timely book, covering a range of approaches to its subject. The book rightly emphasized the potential problems with the optimal allocation approach and its progeny, the cost-benefit analysis of allocation. There is also appropriate emphasis on the possibility that, even if optimal allocation is a major outcome of natural selection, it is not completely expressed because of adaptive or acclimatory constraints. ...a readable, authoritative and stimulating account of an important subject area. The editors are to be congratulated on assembling this volume, and not least for their two excellent 'bookend' chapters." --TREE

"The introductory chapter draws together explicitly the conclusions of the other chapters and even proposes mechamisms by which the phenomena described by the chapter authors may be integrated physiologically by the plant. This is unusual in an edited volume; I wish it were emulated by more editors. The other chapters are generally of high quality, either in terms of ideas or findings. The volume nicely summarizes much of the current state of work and confusion on plant resource allocation. It would provide a good introduction to the field for a graduate student developing a thesis project, or a graduate seminar. The work is presented is often fascinating, and raises interesting questions. Read with an open mind, this book should open some mental doors on exciting frontiers in plant physiological ecology." --ECOLOGY

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0120834901
• ISBN 13: 9780120834907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 303
• Editor: Bazzaz Fakhri A., Grace John