Reproductive Allocation in Plants (Physiological Ecology)

✍ Scribed by Edward Reekie, Fakhri A. Bazzaz

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 261
• Series: Physiological Ecology
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Much effort has been devoted to developing theories to explain the wide variation we observe in reproductive allocation among environments. Reproductive Allocation in Plants describes why plants differ in the proportion of their resources that they allocate to reproduction and looks into the various theories. This book examines the ecological and evolutionary explanations for variation in plant reproductive allocation from the perspective of the underlying physiological mechanisms controlling reproduction and growth. An international team of leading experts have prepared chapters summarizing the current state of the field and offering their views on the factors determining reproductive allocation in plants. This will be a valuable resource for senior undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers in ecology, plant ecophysiology, and population biology. * 8 outstanding chapters dedicated to the evolution and ecology of variation in plant reproductive allocation * Written by an international team of leading experts in the field * Provides enough background information to make it accessible to senior undergraduate students * Includes over 60 figures and 29 tables

✦ Table of Contents

front cover......Page 1
copyright......Page 5
table of contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
1 The Resource Economy of Plant Reproduction......Page 12
2 Meristem Allocation as a Means of Assessing Reproductive Allocation......Page 61
3 It Never Rains but then it Pours: The Diverse Effects of Water on Flower Integrity and Function......Page 86
4 The Allometry of Reproductive Allocation......Page 105
5 Sex-specific Physiology and its Implications for the Cost of Reproduction......Page 137
6 Time of Flowering, Costs of Reproduction, and Reproductive Output in Annuals......Page 166
7 The Shape of the Trade-off Function between Reproduction and Growth......Page 196
8 On Size, Fecundity, and Fitness in Competing Plants......Page 222
index......Page 252
Physiological Ecology......Page 256
Color Plates......Page 258