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Field and Forest: A guide to Native Landscapes for Gardeners and Naturalists features an entire section, five chapters, on ecological landscaping. Jane Scott discusses how to recreate native plant communities in you own garden and how to look to nature for garden design ideas. She also includes lots of practical, down-to-earth advice on maintaining a natural garden, as well as things to watch out for when buying native plans from nurseries.

Another helpful section focuses on the names and classifications of plants, to help the naturalist identify species encountered on neighborhood strolls and countryside hikes. This book will not only make such excursions more rewarding, it will help you to recreate what you see in your own backyard.

• covers the composition, structure, ecology, diversity, distribution and dynamics of plant communities, with an emphasis on functional adaptations to the abiotic and biotic processes governing plant communities;

• reviews the modern developments in vegetation ecology in a historical perspective;

• presents a coherent view on vegetation ecology while integrating population ecology, dispersal biology, biotic interactions, herbivory, interactions with soil organisms and ecosystem ecology; and

• tackles applied aspects of vegetation ecology, notably nature management, restoration ecology and global change studies.

The book emphasizes the particular characteristics of plants that affect their population biology, and evolutionary questions that are particularly relevant for plants. Wherever appropriate, it is shown how ecology and genetics interact, presenting a rounded picture of the population biology of plants.

Topics covered include variation and its inheritance, genetic markers including molecular markers, plant breeding systems, ecological genetics, intraspecific interactions, population dynamics, regional dynamics and metapopulations, competition and coexistence, and the evolution of breeding systems and life history. An extensive bibliography provides access to the recent literature that will be invaluable to students and academics alike.

• Effective integration of plant population ecology, population genetics and evolutionary biology.
  
• The new edition is thoroughly revised and now includes molecular techniques.
  
• The genetics chapters have been completely rewritten by a new co-author, Deborah Charlesworth.