Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1992.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1992. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2300-6 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.