Plant Ecology 2nd Edition by Ernst-Detlef Schulze (PDF)

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This completely updated and revised second edition provides a unique and up-to-date treatment of all aspects of plant ecology, making it an ideal textbook and reference work for students, researchers and practitioners. More than 500 high-quality images and drawings, mostly in colour, aid readers’ understanding of various key topics, while the clear structure and straightforward style make it user friendly and particularly useful for students. Written by leading experts, it offers authoritative information, including relevant references.While Plant Ecology primarily addresses graduate students in biology and ecology, it is also a valuable resource for post-graduate students and researchers in botany, environmental sciences and landscape ecology, as well as all those whose study or work touches on agriculture, forestry, land use, and landscape management.Key Topics:- Molecular ecophysiology (molecular stress physiology: light, temperature, oxygen deficiency, water deficit (drought), unfavorable soil mineral conditions, biotic stress) – Physiological and biophysical plant ecology (ecophysiology of plants: thermal balance, water, nutrient, carbon relations) – Ecosystem ecology (characteristics of ecosystems, approaches how to study and how to model terrestrial ecosystems, biogeochemical fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems) – Community ecology and biological diversity (development of plant communities in time and space, interactions between plants and plant communities with the abiotic and the biotic environment, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning) – Global ecology (global biogeochemical cycles, Dynamic Global Vegetation Models, global change and terrestrial ecosystems)

User’s Reviews

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⭐This is a big hefty book, nearly 900 pages. It’s also chock-full of attractive color illustrations, both diagrams and photographs. However, the coverage emphasizes breadth at the expense of depth. For example, in section 12.2, concerning models of carbon fluxes in photosynthesis, many equations are recited without pausing to interpret them.Most sections don’t invoke mathematics, but judging by those that do, elementary calculus appears necessary, and a course in ordinary differential equations looks like desirable background (albeit that such equations are presented usually without interpretation or application). Despite these mathematical demands, the book doesn’t contain any problem sets or study questions. This leaves it to the reader’s imagination as to what practical use there might be for the modeling equations, or, for that matter, much else presented in the book.Most disappointing to me, though, was the book’s emphasis on competition, and even economic metaphors such as “market.” The notion that ecological phenomena might depend on both intra- and inter-species cooperation gets very little attention, considering the book’s mass. For a more modern point of view, see, e.g., the references cited in Suzanne Simard’s excellent “Finding the Mother Tree” (Knopf 2021); most of them pre-date this textbook, and could have been included. Consequently, the reader should realize that although there is a great deal of information in this book, there is a certain traditional bias in the presentation that perhaps isn’t the best way of looking at the world around us.

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