Schulze E-D., Beck E., Muller-Hohenstein K. Plant Ecology

Springer, 2002. — 702 p. —ISBN: 3-540-20833-X.This textbook starts at the level of the cell and molecular aspects of plant responses to the environment, which is never stress free. Building on this molecular ecophysiology,the organisation and regulation of metabolism of whole plants will be described from an autecological perspective. In the following parts,this book deals with the interactions with other organisms at the level of the ecosystem. Finally, geographical and long-term conditions for the expansion and dynamics of plant populations and species on earth are discussed. The book closes with the element cycles on earth and thus stresses the influence of man on original,so-called natural ecosystems.
As the book covers several different conceptual levels,many aspects and facts will be illuminated from very different viewpoints: the cell, the plant,the ecosystem,the zones of distribution and earth as a whole. Thus,the authors have tried to fully consider the enormous width and complexity of plant ecology.Stress Physiology
Autecology: Whole Plant Ecology
Ecology of Ecosystems
Syndynamics, Synchorology, Synecology
Global Aspects of Plant Ecology
Subject Index