Plants in Changing Environments: Linking Physiological, Population, and Community Ecology (Cambridge Studies in Ecology (Paperback)) - Softcover

Bazzaz, F. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521398436 ISBN 13: 9780521398435

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Forces of nature and human intervention lead to innumerable local, regional and sometimes global changes in plant community patterns. Regardless of the causes and the intensity of change, ecosystems are often naturally able to recover most of their attributes through natural succession. In this thoughtful and provocative new book, Fakhri Bazzaz integrates and synthesizes information on how disturbance changes the environment, how species function, coexist, and share or compete for resources in populations and communities, and how species replace each other over successional time. It illustrates how a diverse array of plant species have been used to examine fundamental questions in plant ecology by integrating physiological, population and community ecology. Graduate students and research workers in plant ecology, global change, conservation and restoration will find the perspective and analysis offered by this book an exciting contribution to the development of our understanding of plant successional change.

About this title

Book Description

This study integrates and synthesizes information on how disturbance changes the environment, how species function, coexist, and share or compete for resources in populations and communities, and how they replace each other over successional time.

About the Author

Fakhri Bazzaz is Mallinckrodt Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521398436
• ISBN 13: 9780521398435
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332