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Autore: | Turner I. M (Ian Mark), <1963-> |
Titolo: | The ecology of trees in the tropical rain forest / / I.M. Turner [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 577.34 |
Soggetto topico: | Rain forest plants - Ecophysiology |
Trees - Ecophysiology - Tropics | |
Rain forest ecology | |
Forests and forestry - Tropics | |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-280) and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction -- 2. The growing tree -- 3. Tree performance -- 4. Reproductive biology -- 5. Seeds and seedlings -- 6. Classificatory systems for tropical trees. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur. Yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the workings of the forest itself. This book aims to summarise contemporary understanding of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees. The emphasis is on comparative ecology, an approach that can help to identify possible adaptive trends and evolutionary constraints and which may also lead to a workable ecological classification for tree species, conceptually simplifying the rain-forest community and making it more amenable to analysis. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The ecology of trees in the tropical rain forest |
ISBN: | 1-107-12288-0 |
0-521-06374-4 | |
1-280-43312-4 | |
9786610433124 | |
0-511-17378-4 | |
0-511-15302-3 | |
0-511-32509-6 | |
0-511-54220-8 | |
0-511-04769-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910777326703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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