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Plant Physiological Ecology - Field methods and instrumentation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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Plant Physiological Ecology - Field methods and instrumentation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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Physiological plant ecology is primarily concerned with the
function and performance of plants in their environment. Within
this broad focus, attempts are made on one hand to understand the
underlying physiological, biochemical and molecular attributes of
plants with respect to performance under the constraints imposed by
the environment. On the other hand physiological ecology is also
concerned with a more synthetic view which attempts to under stand
the distribution and success of plants measured in terms of the
factors that promote long-term survival and reproduction in the
environment. These concerns are not mutually exclusive but rather
represent a continuum of research approaches. Osmond et al. (1980)
have elegantly pointed this out in a space-time scale showing that
the concerns of physiological ecology range from biochemical and
organelle-scale events with time constants of a second or minutes
to succession and evolutionary-scale events involving communities
and ecosystems and thousands, if not millions, of years. The focus
of physiological ecology is typically at the single leaf or root
system level extending up to the whole plant. The time scale is on
the order of minutes to a year. The activities of individual
physiological ecologists extend in one direction or the other, but
few if any are directly concerned with the whole space-time scale.
In their work, however, they must be cognizant both of the
underlying mechanisms as well as the consequences to ecological and
evolutionary processes."
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