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The first book to treat plant growth specifically as a dynamic system, adopting a truly holistic approach. It describes the main groups of dynamic processes that interact in the control of plant growth, and provides a framework for tackling practical questions relating to the impacts of global environmental change.
List of contents
- Preface
- 1: Introduction
- Part I:Variation in Plant Structure and Physiology During Growth
- 2: Effects of changes in development and plant form on growth
- 3: Multiple effects of variation in light on the photosynthesis system
- Part II: Plant Control Systems
- 4: Control processes of plant growth
- 5: Processes producing organisation in the plant
- 6: Stability of the photosynthesis system
- Part III: The Dynamics of the Relationship Between Architecture and Growth
- 7: Variation in architectural dynamics and its effects on growth
- 8: Growth within foliage canopies
- Part IV: Growth Responses to Environmental Change
- 9: Growth in a fluctuating environment
- 10: The aging plant
- 11: Conclusion
About the author
E. David Ford is Professor Emeritus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He has taught courses in modelling, plant physiology, introductory biology, and a graduate course in scientific method for which he wrote the successful textbook Scientific Method for Ecological Research (CUP 2000).
Summary
The first book to treat plant growth specifically as a dynamic system, adopting a truly holistic approach. It describes the main groups of dynamic processes that interact in the control of plant growth, and provides a framework for tackling practical questions relating to the impacts of global environmental change.
Additional text
The Dynamics of Plant Growth, which could serve admirably as a textbook in a senior-level plant ecology or forestry class as well as in a graduate student seminar setting. In addition, it makes for good reading in general and might well inform any researcher interested in plant biology and ecology.
