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Ecology and management of aquatic vegetation in the Indian subcontinent (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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Ecology and management of aquatic vegetation in the Indian subcontinent (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
Series: Geobotany, 16
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Life originated and evolved in water. Later the The tropical
countries where the need to under plants moved out of water,
conquered the land and stand the natural ecosystems is far greater
because became dominant over it. The evolution through they are
under intensive pressure from develop the millennia resulted in
enormous complexity of ment from a rapidly growing human
population, form, tissue organisation, reproductive mechan have
generally devoted much less attention to the isms and
specialisation of taxa in different niches. studies of aquatic
ecosystems. The Indian subconti At some stage during evolution,
some plants devel nent is a well-recognised biogeographic region
with oped appropriate morphological and physiological a distinct
geological history, climate, soils and adaptations and reverted
back to the aquatic and/ biota. It is also distinct in the history
of human civilisation and cultures which have a profound bear or
semi-aquatic habitat. These plants, perhaps with the exception of a
few ing on the natural ecosystems. This book is in with beautiful
flowers, have attracted little atten tended to provide the state of
our knowledge of the tion from mankind. The fact that humans
evolved aquatic and semi-aquatic vegetation in the inland in a
tropical forest or savanna environment appears freshwaters of the
subcontinent. The book covers responsible for a permanent bias in
human atti only the herbaceous vegetation, since there is al tudes
towards land and its biota."
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