The ecology of trees in the tropical rain forest / / I.M. Turner [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Turner I. M (Ian Mark), <1963->
• 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.: 9910449701103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge tropical biology series.