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Carnivorous Plants - Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution (Paperback)
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Carnivorous Plants - Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution (Paperback)
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Carnivorous plants have fascinated botanists, evolutionary
biologists, ecologists, physiologists, developmental biologists,
anatomists, horticulturalists, and the general public for
centuries. Charles Darwin was the first scientist to demonstrate
experimentally that some plants could actually attract, kill,
digest, and absorb nutrients from insect prey; his book
Insectivorous Plants (1875) remains a widely-cited classic. Since
then, many movies and plays, short stories, novels, coffee-table
picture books, and popular books on the cultivation of carnivorous
plants have been produced. However, all of these widely read
products depend on accurate scientific information, and most of
them have repeated and recycled data from just three comprehensive,
but now long out of date, scientific monographs. The field has
evolved and changed dramatically in the nearly 30 years since the
last of these books was published, and thousands of scientific
papers on carnivorous plants have appeared in the academic journal
literature. In response, Ellison and Adamec have assembled the
world's leading experts to provide a truly modern synthesis. They
examine every aspect of physiology, biochemistry, genomics,
ecology, and evolution of these remarkable plants, culminating in a
description of the serious threats they now face from
over-collection, poaching, habitat loss, and climatic change which
directly threaten their habitats and continued persistence in them.
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