Diversity and evolution of land plants /

By: Ingrouille, MartinMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1992Edition: 1st edDescription: 340 p. : illISBN: 0412442302Subject(s): Plant diversity | Plants | BiodiversityDDC classification: 581.1/5
Contents:
1. The study of diversity. 1.1. The names of organisms. 1.2. Studying plant structure. 1.3. Characters -- 2. The plant body: plant behaviour. 2.1. Plants are different from animals. 2.2. The environment of plants. 2.3. Plant growth and behaviour -- 3. The first land plants: patterns of diversity. 3.1. Plant fossils. 3.2. Algal ancestors. 3.3. An early community of land plants. 3.4. Diversifying on land. 3.5. The axis and its appendages. 3.6. The age of gymnosperms: extinct seed plant groups -- 4. Sex and dispersal: gametes, spores, seeds and fruits. 4.1. The alternation of generations. 4.2. The sporophyte. 4.3. The gametophyte. 4.4. Heterothallism. 4.5. Seed plants: the ovule. 4.6. A classification of land plants -- 5. Flowers: evolution and diversity. 5.1. The evolution of angiosperms. 5.2. Cross pollination. 5.3. Breeding systems. 5.4. Evolutionary trends. 5.5. A review of angiosperms -- 6. Trees: adaptations in woods and forests. 6.1. Wood anatomy. 6.2. Tree architecture. 6.3. Leaves. 6.4. Bark and periderm. 6.5. Epiphytes -- 7. Adaptive growth forms: the limiting physical environment. 7.1. Water relations. 7.2. The bryophytes; non-vascular plants. 7.3. Gas relations. 7.4. Aquatic plants. 7.5. Nutrient relations. 7.6. Surviving environmental extremes. 7.7. Life forms -- 8. Competition, herbivory and dispersal: the limiting biotic environment. 8.1. Reproductive strategies. 8.2. Herbivory. 8.3. Dispersal. 8.4. Establishment. 8.5. A behavioural classification of plants -- 9. Cultivated plants: conclusion. 9.1. Exploited diversity, the uses of plants. 9.2. The genetic history of crops. 9.3. Future prospects. 9.4. Conclusion.
Summary: Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants provides a fresh and long overdue treatment of plant anatomy and morphology for the biology undergraduate of today.
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1. The study of diversity. 1.1. The names of organisms. 1.2. Studying plant structure. 1.3. Characters --
2. The plant body: plant behaviour. 2.1. Plants are different from animals. 2.2. The environment of plants. 2.3. Plant growth and behaviour --
3. The first land plants: patterns of diversity. 3.1. Plant fossils. 3.2. Algal ancestors. 3.3. An early community of land plants. 3.4. Diversifying on land. 3.5. The axis and its appendages. 3.6. The age of gymnosperms: extinct seed plant groups --
4. Sex and dispersal: gametes, spores, seeds and fruits. 4.1. The alternation of generations. 4.2. The sporophyte. 4.3. The gametophyte. 4.4. Heterothallism. 4.5. Seed plants: the ovule. 4.6. A classification of land plants --
5. Flowers: evolution and diversity. 5.1. The evolution of angiosperms. 5.2. Cross pollination. 5.3. Breeding systems. 5.4. Evolutionary trends. 5.5. A review of angiosperms --
6. Trees: adaptations in woods and forests. 6.1. Wood anatomy. 6.2. Tree architecture. 6.3. Leaves. 6.4. Bark and periderm. 6.5. Epiphytes --
7. Adaptive growth forms: the limiting physical environment. 7.1. Water relations. 7.2. The bryophytes; non-vascular plants. 7.3. Gas relations. 7.4. Aquatic plants. 7.5. Nutrient relations. 7.6. Surviving environmental extremes. 7.7. Life forms --
8. Competition, herbivory and dispersal: the limiting biotic environment. 8.1. Reproductive strategies. 8.2. Herbivory. 8.3. Dispersal. 8.4. Establishment. 8.5. A behavioural classification of plants --
9. Cultivated plants: conclusion. 9.1. Exploited diversity, the uses of plants. 9.2. The genetic history of crops. 9.3. Future prospects. 9.4. Conclusion.

Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants provides a fresh and long overdue treatment of plant anatomy and morphology for the biology undergraduate of today.

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