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Reproductive Allocation in Plants
A valuable resource on the ecology of plant reproductive allocation
Edward Reekie (Edited by), Fakhri A. Bazzaz (Edited by)
9780120883868, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 21 November 2005
264 pages, Illustrated
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.54 kg
Much effort has been devoted to developing theories to explain the wide variation we observe in reproductive allocation among environments. Reproductive Allocation in Plants describes why plants differ in the proportion of their resources that they allocate to reproduction and looks into the various theories. This book examines the ecological and evolutionary explanations for variation in plant reproductive allocation from the perspective of the underlying physiological mechanisms controlling reproduction and growth. An international team of leading experts have prepared chapters summarizing the current state of the field and offering their views on the factors determining reproductive allocation in plants. This will be a valuable resource for senior undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers in ecology, plant ecophysiology, and population biology.
Chapter 1: The Resource Economy of Plant Reproduction Chapter 2: Meristem Allocation as a Means of Assessing Reproductive Allocation Chapter 3: It Never Rains but then it Pours: The Diverse Effects of Water on Flower Integrity and Function Chapter 4: The Allometry of Reproductive Allocation Chapter 5: Sex-specific Physiology and its Implications for the Cost of Reproduction Chapter 6: Time of Flowering, Costs of Reproduction, and Reproductive Output in Annuals Chapter 7: The Shape of the Trade-off Function between Reproduction and Growth Chapter 8: On Size, Fecundity, and Fitness in Competing Plants
Subject Areas: Applied ecology [RNC], Human geography [RGC], Botany & plant sciences [PST], Evolution [PSAJ], Ecological science, the Biosphere [PSAF], Biology, life sciences [PS]
