TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monson,Russell K.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Ecology and the Environment
T2  - The Plant Sciences
SN  - 9781461475019
AV  - QH433 
U1  - 581.35 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Biochemistry
KW  - Botany
KW  - Plant anatomy
KW  - Plant breeding
KW  - Plant diseases
KW  - Plant Genetics & Genomics
KW  - Plant Biochemistry
KW  - Plant Sciences
KW  - Plant Anatomy/Development
KW  - Plant Pathology
N1  - Ecophysiology -- Ecological genetics – genetic basis of traits and adaptation -- Populations, ecosystems, scale -- Management of natural and semi-natural systems -- Management of agricultural systems -- Predicting effects of climate change on ecosystems - natural and agricultural
N2  - In this book, plant biology is considered from the perspective of plants and their surrounding environment, including both biotic and abiotic interactions.  The intended audience is undergraduate students in the middle or final phases of their programs of study.  Topics are developed to provide a rudimentary understanding of how plant-environment interactions span multiple spatiotemporal scales, and how this rudimentary knowledge can be applied to understand the causes of ecosystem vulnerabilities in the face of global climate change and expansion of natural resource use by human societies.  In all chapters connections are made from smaller to larger scales of ecological organization, providing a foundation for understanding plant ecology.  Where relevant, environmental threats to ecological systems are identified and future research needs are discussed.  As future generations take on the responsibility for managing ecosystem goods and services, one of the most effective resources that can be passed on is accumulated knowledge of how organisms, populations, species, communities and ecosystems function and interact across scales of organization.  This book is intended to provide some of that knowledge, and hopefully provide those generations with the ability to avoid some of the catastrophic environmental mistakes that prior generations have made.     
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7501-9
ER  -