Nutrient Acquisition by Plants An Ecological Perspective
Adaptation and evolution of terrestrial plants depend, to a large extent, on their ability to acquire nutrients. This is a modern and integrative treatment of the mechanisms controlling plant nutrient uptake and how plants respond to changes in the enviro
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Ecological Studies Volumes published since 2000 are listed at the end of this book.
H. BassiriRad (Ed.)
Nutrient Acquisition by Plants An Ecological Perspective
With 46 Figures and 17 Tables
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Prof. Dr. Hormoz BassiriRad Department of Biological Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago 845 West Taylor Street Chicago, IL 60607 USA
ISSN 0070-8356 ISBN 3-540-24186-8 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2004118098
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Preface
The adaptation and evolution of terrestrial plants depend, to a large extent, on their ability to acquire nutrients. Therefore, factors governing plant nutrient acquisition are central to our understanding of plant ecology and evolution. The mechanisms that control plant nutrient uptake and how plants respond to changes in the environment have helped our understanding of the forces that govern today’s plant communities, and are also likely to be indispensable in models designed to predict how plant communities will respond to projected changes in the global climate. A modern and integrated treatment of these mechanisms is the motivation for the production of this volume. Even though there are other excellent books that deal with plant nutrition (e.g., Barber 1995; Marschner 1995; Tinker and Nye 2000), a number of major differences make the content of this volume very timely. First, this volume does not deal with the broader concept of plant nutrition. Rather, the emphasis here is on factors that control plant nutrient acquisition. Recent methodological advances in the imaging of root
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