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Price: $54.95
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Sale: $42.31
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Walter Larcher
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 4th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.7
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Publication Date: 2003-03-10
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Reading Level: 513
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Description: From the reviews of the 3rd edition: "The textbook of Walter Larcher (...) belongs certainly to the most successful manuals that ever existed." (Photosynthetica, Czech Republic)
"(...) it continues to be one of the major texts in the field of ecophysiology."(Plant Growth Regulation, The Netherlands)
"This book is really a must reading for those interested in sustainable forestry." (Journal of Sustainable Forestry, USA)
"The book, (...), should be on the shelf of any scientist, teacher, or student seeking an introduction to the field of plant ecophysiology that is also an excellent reference." (The Quarterly Review of Biology, USA)
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Price: $17.48
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Sale: $16.98
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Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Deni Bown
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Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 584.64
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Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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Reading Level: 468
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Description: Originally published in 1988 as the first truly comprehensive review of one of the largest and most popular plant families, Aroids was enthusiastically welcomed by botanists and horticulturists alike for its attention to scientific detail and delightful writing style. Now in this completely updated second edition, we learn of discoveries made in the last decade as the family has grown from about 2500 species to nearer 3200. The latest taxonomic and nomenclatural revisions are noted in the checklist of genera, and all the original drawings are included plus twice as many color photos. A new guide to the cultivation of ornamental aroids completes this well-rounded introduction to a remarkable family.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $25.95
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Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press/Regional
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Howard Crum
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Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.526325
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Publication Date: 1992-11-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: A Focus on Peatlands and Peat Mosses surveys the fens and bogs of the Upper Midwest, examining how plant life is directly affected by coldness, waterlogged peat accumulations, and habitats that become progressively more acidic and mineral poor. Other topics explored include classification of peatlands, nutrient cycling, and the detailed taxonomy of peat mosses. |
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Price: $115.00
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Sale: $70.13
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Siegmar-Walter Breckle
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 4th completely revised and enlarged ed.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.7
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Publication Date: 2002-09-17
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Reading Level: 547
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Description: Vegetation, soil and climate are the most important components of ecological systems. This long-awaited fourth edition of the well-established textbook by Heinrich Walter summarizes our knowledge of the earth's ecology and constitutes the basis for a deeper understanding of the larger interrelations on a global scale.
While Walter's general concept remains unchanged, the individual chapters have been completely revised, enlarged and updated. The author's intimate knowledge of practically all classes of plants and climatic zones allows him to describe the various ecological systems in close detail.
This richly illustrated textbook is a must for every student in the plant sciences.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Janice Emily Bowers
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Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.50924
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Publication Date: 1988-08-01
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Reading Level: 195
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Description: Forrest Shreve (1878-1950) was an internationally known plant ecologist who spent most of his career at the Carnegie Institution's Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona. Shreve's contributions to the study of plant ecology laid the groundwork for modern studies and several of his works came to be regarded as classics by ecologists worldwide. This first full-length study of Shreve's life and work demonstrates that he was more than a desert ecologist. His early work in Maryland and Jamaica gave him a breadth of expertise matched by few of his ecological contemporaries, and his studies of desert plant demography, the physiological ecology of rain-forest plants, and vegetational gradients on southwestern mountain ranges anticipated by decades recent trends in ecology. Tracing Shreve's development from student to scientist, Bowers evokes the rigors and delights of fieldwork in the first half of this century and shows how Shreve's sense of place informed his scientific thought—making him, in his own words, "not an exile from some better place, but a man at home in an environment to which his life can be adjusted without physical or intellectual loss."
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Price: $85.00
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Sale: $62.80
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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Author: Caryl L. Elzinga::Daniel W. Salzer::John W. Willoughby::James P. Gibbs
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.880287
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Publication Date: 2001-02-15
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations offers an overview of population monitoring issues that is accessible to the typical field biologist and land managers with a modest statistical background. The text includes concrete guidelines for ecologists to follow to design a statistically defensible monitoring program.
- User-friendly, practical guide, written in a highly readable format.
- The authors provide an interdisciplinary scope to address the current, widespread interest in monitoring in many environmental fields, including pure and applied ecology, conservation biology, and wildlife management.
- Emphasizes the role of monitoring in adaptive management.
- Defines important terminology and contrasts monitoring with other data-collection activities. Covers the applicable principles of sampling and shows how to design a monitoring project.
- Provides a step-by-step overview of the monitoring process, illustrated by flow charts and references. The authors also offer guidelines for analyzing and interpreting monitoring data.
- Illustrates the foundation of management objectives and describes their components, types, and development.
- Describes common field techniques for measuring important attributes of animal and plant populations.
- Reviews different methods for recording monitoring data in the field, managing the data, and communicating data to policy makers.
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Price: $229.00
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Sale: $223.70
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.34
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Publication Date: 2001-07-01
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Reading Level: 380
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Description: Almost half of all life on earth may exist in the world's forest canopies. They may also play a vital role in maintaining the planet's climate, yet they remain largely unexplored owing to difficulties of access. They are renowned for their great diversity and role in forest functioning, yet there are still great gaps in the understanding of this `last biological frontier'. This seminal book shows how canopy science is now in a position to answer many of the outstanding questions, among which are some of the most pressing environmental issues society is presently facing. It represents a major summary of the current understanding of canopy ecology, and maps a path forward into a greater understanding of tropical forest ecology and management at a time when the very future of this ecosystem is threatened by humanity's actions.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $32.60
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Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Edith A. Roberts
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.95174
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Publication Date: 1996-12-01
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Undeservedly out of print for decades, American Plants for American Gardens was one of the first popular books to promote the use of plant ecology and native plants in gardening and landscaping. Emphasizing the strong links between ecology and aesthetics, nature and design, the book demonstrates the basic, practical application of ecological principles to the selection of plant groups or "associations" that are inherently suited to a particular climate, soil, topography, and lighting. Specifically, American Plants for American Gardens focuses on the vegetation concentrated in the northeastern United States, but which extends from the Atlantic Ocean west to the Alleghenies and south to Georgia. The plant community settings featured include the open field, hillside, wood and grove, streamside, ravine, pond, bog, and seaside. Plant lists and accompanying texts provide valuable information for the design and management of a wide range of project types: residential properties, school grounds, corporate office sites, roadways, and parks.
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Price: $74.95
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Sale: $59.99
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Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alastair Fitter::Robert K.M. Hay
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Publisher: Academic Press
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 571.2
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Publication Date: 2001-10
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Reading Level: 367
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Description: This is the third edition of an established and successful university textbook. The original structure and philosophy of the book continue in this new edition, providing a genuine synthesis of modern ecological and physiological thinking, while entirely updating the detailed content. New features include a fresh, unified treatment of toxicity, emphasizing common features of plant response to ionic, gaseous, and other toxins, explicit treatment of issues relating to global change, and a section on the role of fire in plant physiology and communities. The illustrations in the text are improved over previous editions, including color plates for the first time, and the authors' continuing commitment to providing wide citation of the relevant literature has further improved the reference list. This revision of Environmental Physiology of Plants will ensure the reputation of this title as a useful and relevant text well into the 21st century.
Key Features
* Includes enhanced illustrations, now with color plates
* Examines new molecular approaches which can be harnessed to solve problems in physiology
* Features new topics such as the unified treatment of toxicity, an explicit treatment of the issues relating to global change, and a section on the role of fire
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $19.77
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Martin Beech
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.5
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Publication Date: 2009-03-01
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Reading Level: 238
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Description: This book proposes a sound and realistic exploration on the topic of terraforming. Often used as the narrative premise in science fiction novels, terraforming is the process by which an uninhabitable planet might be converted into one capable of supporting life. This book presents what is physically possible today and hints what might conceivably be put into practice in the next several hundred years. The author works within the realms of current technology and known physics, although speculation on future advancements inevitably enters the discussion. Introductory chapters establish why terraforming will be of great benefit to human kind, and also put in place the basic physical arguments necessary to the terraforming process. The following parts look at various proposals that have been made for terraforming the planets Mars and Venus. The book concludes with a glimpse to the much deeper future when humankind will explore and colonize the outer solar system and possibly the newly discovered exoplanets.
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