Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 298 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511542206
Series Statement:
Cambridge tropical biology series
Content:
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
Content:
1. Introduction -- 2. The growing tree -- 3. Tree performance -- 4. Reproductive biology -- 5. Seeds and seedlings -- 6. Classificatory systems for tropical trees
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521801836
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521063746
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521801836
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511542206
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