Plants at the Margin: Ecological Limits and Climate Change

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Cambridge University Press, 2008 M03 20 - 478 pages
Margins 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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R. M. M. Crawford has taught and researched at the University of St Andrews since 1962, pursuing the study of plant responses to the environment in a wide range of habitats in Scotland, Scandinavia, North and South America and the Arctic. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Linnean Society and an associate member of the Belgian Royal Academy.

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