Plants at the Margin: Ecological Limits and Climate ChangeMargins are by their very nature environmentally unstable - does it therefore follow that plant populations adapted for life in such areas will prove to be pre-adapted to withstand the changes that may be brought about by a warmer world? Biogeography, demography, reproductive biology, physiology and genetics all provide cogent explanations as to why limits occur where they do, and the purpose of this book is to bring together these different avenues of enquiry. Crawford's numerous beautiful illustrations of plants in their natural habitats remind us that the environment remains essential to our understanding of plants and their function. This book is suited to students, researchers and anyone with an interest in the impact of climate change on our world. |
Contents
Section 1 | 62 |
Section 2 | 108 |
Section 3 | 117 |
Section 4 | 149 |
Section 5 | 157 |
Section 6 | 160 |
Section 7 | 176 |
Section 8 | 180 |
Section 13 | 259 |
Section 14 | 272 |
Section 15 | 296 |
Section 16 | 310 |
Section 17 | 313 |
Section 18 | 332 |
Section 19 | 333 |
Section 20 | 380 |
Section 9 | 186 |
Section 10 | 196 |
Section 11 | 201 |
Section 12 | 257 |
Section 21 | 410 |
Section 22 | 418 |
Section 23 | 429 |
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Plants at the Margin: Ecological Limits and Climate Change R. M. M. Crawford No preview available - 2008 |
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acid adapted alpine altitude anoxia biodiversity birch boreal forest Calluna carbohydrate carbon dioxide climatic change climatic warming coastal competition Crawford distribution diversity drought dune dwarf ecological ecotypes endemic environment environmental erosion favourable flooding flora flowering plants Fynbos genetic germination grass grazing growing season growth habitats High Arctic high latitudes high-altitude Holocene hybrid increased Island krummholz Last Glacial Maximum levels limits Little Ice Age lowland marginal areas metabolic migration mountain nitrogen North northern nutrient oceanic Orkney oxygen particularly peat periods Photo photosynthetic Phragmites australis physiological pine Pinus plant communities Pleistocene polyploidy populations rates reduced regions reindeer relation Reproduced with permission reproduction rhizomes roots Salix salt marshes Saxifraga oppositifolia Scotland seedlings shoots shores shrubs Siberia snow soil southern Spitsbergen spruce strategies summer survival temperature tissues tolerance treeline trees tundra variation vegetation warmer wetland willow winter woody zone