Author: William Austin CannonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Desert plants
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Root Habits of Desert Plants
Author: William Austin CannonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Desert plants
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Root Habits of Desert Plants
Author: William Austin CannonPlant Habits and Habitats in the Arid Portions of South Australia
Author: William Austin CannonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Plant World
Author: Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication
Author: Ecology of the Saguaro : II, Reproduction, Germination, Establishment, Growth, and Survival of the Young Plant
Author: Warren F. SteenberghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Desert ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Environmental Biology of Agaves and Cacti
Author: Park S. NobelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521543347
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A comprehensive review of these two interesting and economically important desert succulents.
Classified List of Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
Author: Carnegie Institution of WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Desert Grassland
Author: Mitchel P. McClaranPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816553203
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The mixed grass and shrub vegetation known to scientists as desert grassland is common to the basins and valleys that skirt the mountain ranges throughout southwestern North America, extending from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas down through thirteen Mexican states. This variegated ground cover is crucial to life in an arid environment. The Desert Grassland offers the most comprehensive study to date of these flora and the rich biotic communities they support. Leading experts in geography, biology, botany, zoology, and geoscience present new research on the desert grassland and review a vast amount of earlier work. They reveal that present-day grasses once grew in the ice-age forests that existed in these areas before the climate dried and the trees vanished and how the intensity and frequency of fire can influence the plant and animal species of the grassland. They also document how the influence of humans—from Amerindians to contemporary ranchers, public land managers, and real estate developers—has changed the relative abundance of woody and herbaceous species and how the introduction of new plants and domesticated animals to the area has also affected biodiversity. The book concludes with a review of the attempts, both failed and successful, to reestablish plants in desert grasslands affected by overgrazing, drought, and farm abandonment. Meticulously researched and copiously illustrated, The Desert Grassland is a major contribution to ecological literature. For advanced lay readers as well as students and scholars of history, geography, and ecology, it will be a standard reference work for years to come.
Nutrient Acquisition by Plants
Author: Hormoz BassiriRadPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540276750
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This is an integrated review of the mechanisms controlling plant nutrient uptake and how plants respond to changes in the environment. Among key topics covered are: soil nutrient bioavailability; root responses to variations in nutrient supply; nitrogen fixation; root architecture; life span; mycorrhizae; responses to climate change. The book helps us understand the mechanisms that govern present-day plant communities and to predict the response of plants to a changing climate.