Brock, Saul and Maldonado, Silas (2012) Handbook of plant ecology and reproduction. Academic Studio, Delhi, India. ISBN 9788132307167
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Abstract
Plant ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology which studies the distribution and abundance of plants, the interactions among and between members of plant species, and their interactions with their environment. Plant ecology has its roots both in plant geography and in studies of the interactions between individual plants and their environment. Broadly speaking, the scope of plant ecology encompasses plant ecophysiology, plant population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology and landscape ecology. Most plants are rooted in the soil, and often they reproduce vegetatively in a way that makes it difficult to distinguish individual plants of the same species. These characteristic features of plants necessitate a somewhat different scientific methodology than used in e.g., animal ecology, but the different subdisciplines' of ecology is integrated in ecosystem ecology. An important ecological function of plants is that they produce organic compounds for herbivores in the bottom of the food web. Oppositely, herbivory is an important source of disturbance for many plant species, and they have evolved many different forms of defensive physical structures and chemical compounds to prevent herbivory.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | S Agriculture > SB Plant culture |
| Divisions: | Electronic Books |
| Depositing User: | Esam @ Hisham Muhammad |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jan 2024 06:12 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2024 06:12 |
| URI: | http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/4337 |
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