Vascular Plants as Epiphytes Evolution and Ecophysiology

In his lectures my teacher Karl Mägdefrau used to say that one only becomes a real plant scientist when one enters a tropical rainforest. For me this initiation occurred in 1969 in northern Queensland, Australia, and was associated with the greatest excit

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Vaseular Plants as Epiphytes (1989)

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Vascular Plants as Epiphytes Evolution and Ecophysiology

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ISBN-13:978-3-642-74467-9 e-ISBN -13:978-3-642-74465-5 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-74465-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Pnblication Data. Vascular plants as epiphytes : evolution and ecophysiology / Ulrich Lüttge (.ed.). p. cm. -- (Ecological studies; vol. 76) Based on papers presented during a symposium held during the 14th International Botanical Congress in July 1987 in Berlin. Ineludes bibliographical references. 1. Epiphytes--Physiological ecology--Congresses. 2. Epiphytes--Evolution--Congresses. I. Lüttge, Ulrich. II. International Botanical Congress (14th: 1987: Berlin, Germany) III.Series: Ecological studies; v. 76. QK922.V371989 582'.01-dc20 89-11538 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights o