Conifer Cold Hardiness

F J Bigras

ISBN 10: 9048155878 / ISBN 13: 9789048155873

Published by Springer, 2010

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Conifer Cold Hardiness provides an up-to-date synthesis by leading scientists in the study of the major physiological and environmental factors regulating cold hardiness of conifer tree species. This state-of-the-art reference comprehensively explains current understanding of conifer cold hardiness ranging from the gene to the globe and from the highly applied to the very basic. Topics addressed encompass cold hardiness from the perspectives of ecology, ecophysiology, acclimation and deacclimation, seedling production and reforestation, the impacts of biotic and abiotic factors, and methods for studying and analyzing cold hardiness. The content is relevant to geneticists, ecologists, stress physiologists, environmental and global change scientists, pathologists, advanced nursery and silvicultural practitioners, and graduate students involved in plant biology, plant physiology, horticulture and forestry with an interest in cold hardiness.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conifer Cold Hardiness
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9048155878
• ISBN 13: 9789048155873
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 244W x 170H x 33D millimeters 244 millimeters width by 170 millimeters height by 33 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1047 grams

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Synopsis

Conifer Cold Hardiness provides an up-to-date synthesis by leading scientists in the study of the major physiological and environmental factors regulating cold hardiness of conifer tree species. This state-of-the-art reference comprehensively explains current understanding of conifer cold hardiness ranging from the gene to the globe and from the highly applied to the very basic. Topics addressed encompass cold hardiness from the perspectives of ecology, ecophysiology, acclimation and deacclimation, seedling production and reforestation, the impacts of biotic and abiotic factors, and methods for studying and analyzing cold hardiness. The content is relevant to geneticists, ecologists, stress physiologists, environmental and global change scientists, pathologists, advanced nursery and silvicultural practitioners, and graduate students involved in plant biology, plant physiology, horticulture and forestry with an interest in cold hardiness.

Review

`..this book is doubtlessly a high valuable reference source and can strongly be recommended to all botanists and forest scientists working in this field.'
Journal of Plant Physiology, 159:12 (2001)