[PDF] Plant Form eBook

Author : Adrian D. Bell
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2008-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 088192850X

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The ideal reference for students of botany and horticulture, gardeners, and naturalists. The diverse external shapes and structures that make up flowering plants can be bewildering and even daunting, as can the terminology used to describe them. An understanding of plant form—plant morphology—is essential to appreciating the wonders of the plant world and to the study of botany and horticulture at every level. In this ingeniously designed volume, the complex subject becomes both accessible and manageable. The first part of the book describes and clearly illustrates the major plant structures that can be seen with the naked eye or a hand lens. The second part focuses on how plants grow: bud development, the growth of reproductive organs, leaf arrangement, branching patterns, and the accumulation and loss of structures. Aimed at students of botany and horticulture, enthusiastic gardeners, and amateur naturalists, it functions as an illustrated dictionary, a basic course in plant morphology, and an intriguing and enlightening book to dip into.

Author : Agnes Arber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108045057

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First published in 1950, this monograph on the morphology of flowering plants explores the relationship between philosophy and botany.

Author : Karl J. Niklas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 1992-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226586316

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In this book, the author analyzes plant form and how it has evolved in response to basic physical laws. He examines the ways these laws limit the organic expression of form, size, and growth in a variety of plant structures and in plants as whole organisms, drawing on both the fossil record and studies of extant species.

Author : Elgene E. O. Box
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400986807

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This study arose out ofthe old question of what actually determines vegetation structure and distributions. Is climate the overriding control, as one would suppose from reading the more geographically oriented literature? Or is climate only incidental, as suggested by more site and/ or taxon-oriented writers? The question might be phrased more realistically: How much does climate control vegetation processes, structures, and distributions? It seemed to me, as an ambitious doctoral student, that one way to attempt an answer might be to try to predict world vegetation from climate alone and then compare the predicted results with actual vegetation patterns. If climatic data were sufficient to reproduce the world's actual vegetation patterns, then one could conclude that climate is the main control. This book represents an expanded, second-generation version of that original thesis. It presents world-scale vegetation and ecoclimatic models and a methodology for applying such models to predict vegetation and for evaluating model results. This approach also provides a means of geographical simulation of vegetation patterns and changes, which represent necessary data inputs in other fields such as atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemical cycling. It has been fairly well accepted that climatic and other environmental conditions are associated with the evolution of particular aspects of plant form (convergent evolution). The particular configurations of plant size, photosynthetic surface area and structure (e. g. sclerophylly, stomatal 'resistance'), and their seasonal variations represent what one can recognize fairly readily as distinct growth forms.

Author : Karl J. Niklas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 1994-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226580807

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Allometry, the study of the growth rate of an organism's parts in relation to the whole, has produced exciting results in research on animals. Now distinguished plant biologist Karl J. Niklas has written the first book to apply allometry to studies of the evolution, morphology, physiology, and reproduction of plants. Niklas covers a broad spectrum of plant life, from unicellular algae to towering trees, including fossil as well as extant taxa. He examines the relation between organic size and variations in plant form, metabolism, reproduction, and evolution, and draws on the zoological literature to develop allometric techniques for the peculiar problems of plant height, the relation between body mass and body length, and size-correlated variations in rates of growth. For readers unfamiliar with the basics of allometry, an appendix explains basic statistical methods. For botanists interested in an original, quantitative approach to plant evolution and function, and for zoologists who want to learn more about the value of allometric techniques for studying evolution, Plant Allometry makes a major contribution to the study of plant life.

Author : Ernest E. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 110807006X

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A richly illustrated 1904 guide to English plant forms, originally intended for art students sitting examinations in plant drawing.