Plant Functional Types : Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book Series)

Plant Functional Types : Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book Series)

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Book Description
When predicting the effects of changing climate and carbon dioxide on plants at the global scale there is a major stumbling block--we have very little information, in many cases none, about how plants will respond in the future. In order to circumvent this problem, and until more information on species accumulates, we reduce the diversity of species to a diversity of functions and structures. The structures may be trees, shrubs, herbs and grasses. The functions may be types of photosynthetic processes, the capacity to minimize water loss and varying the timing of growth. This book describes approaches and methods for defining these functional types in ways that maximize our potential to predict accurately the responses of real vegetation with real species diversity. This book will be useful to those interested in botany, ecology, and environmental science.

Book Info
Proceedings of the workshop on plant functional types held in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1993. DLC: Plant ecophysiology. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Plant Functional Types : Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book Series)

Plant Functional Types: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book Series),T. M. Smith,H. H. Shugart,F. I. Woodward,Cambridge University Press,0521566436,Climatic changes,Flowers,International Geosphere-Biosph,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Life Sciences - Botany,Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems,Plant ecophysiology,Science,Science/Mathematics,Vegetation and climate,Ecological science, the Biosphere,Environmental science,Plant ecology,Science / Biology

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