Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants - Ingrouille, M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1992)
1 The study of diversity -- 1.1 The names of organisms -- 1.2 Studying plant structure -- 1.3 Characters -- 2 The plant body: plant behaviour -- 2.1 Plants are different from animals -- 2.2 The environment of plants -- 2.3 Plant growth and behaviour -- 3 The first land plants: patterns of diversity -- 3.1 Plant fossils -- 3.2 Algal ancestors -- 3.3 An early community of land plants -- 3.4 Diversifying on land -- 3.5 The axis and its appendages -- 3.6 The age of gymnosperms: extinct seed plant groups -- 4 Sex and dispersal: gametes, spores, seeds and fruits -- 4.1 The alternation of generations -- 4.2 The sporophyte -- 4.3 The gametophyte -- 4.4 Heterothallism -- 4.5 Seed plants: the ovule -- 4.6 A classification of land plants -- 5 Flowers: evolution and diversity -- 5.1 The evolution of angiosperms -- 5.2 Cross pollination -- 5.3 Breeding systems -- 5.4 Evolutionary trends -- 5.5 A review of angiosperms -- 6 Trees: adaptations in woods and forests -- 6.1 Wood anatomy -- 6.2 Tree architecture -- 6.3 Leaves -- 6.4 Bark and periderm -- 6.5 Epiphytes -- 7 Adaptive growth forms: the limiting physical environment -- 7.1 Water relations -- 7.2 The bryophytes; non-vascular plants -- 7.3 Gas relations -- 7.4 Aquatic plants -- 7.5 Nutrient relations -- 7.6 Surviving environmental extremes -- 7.7 Life forms -- 8 Competition, herbivory and dispersal: the limiting biotic environment -- 8.1 Reproductive strategies -- 8.2 Herbivory -- 8.3 Dispersal -- 8.4 Establishment -- 8.5 A behavioural classification of plants -- 9 Cultivated plants: conclusion -- 9.1 Exploited diversity, the uses of plants -- 9.2 The genetic history of crops -- 9.3 Future prospects -- 9.4 Conclusion -- References.
Keywords: Evolutionary biology; Plant physiology; Life sciences; Evolutionary Biology; Plant Physiology; Life Sciences, general