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Plant Reproductive Ecology: Patterns and Strategies - Softcover

 
9780195063943: Plant Reproductive Ecology: Patterns and Strategies
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0195063945 ISBN 13: 9780195063943
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This collection of reviews by leading investigators examines plant reproduction within a framework of evolutionary ecology. The contributors discuss conceptual issues, showing the importance of sex allocation, sexual selection and inclusive fitness, and the dimensions of paternity and maternity in plants. The evolution, maintenance, and loss of self-incompatibility in plants, the nature of sex choice, and sex dimorphism are all explored. Specific forms of biotic interactions shaping the evolution of plant reproductive strategy are discussed, and a taxonomically based review of the reproductive biology of non-angiosperm plant groups - such as bryophytes, ferns and algae - is presented.

Together these studies focus on the complexities of plant life cycles and the distinctive reproductive biologies of these organisms, while showing the similarities between non-flowering plants and the more thoroughly documented flowering species.

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Review

'Many individual chapters are superb, and there is evidence of diligent editorial work... this is a most useful book.' The Quarterly Review of Biology

`Provides a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers interested in evolutionary ecology and plant reproductive biology. Chapters by the Lovett Dousts, Bertin, Zimmerman, and Lee are especially notable in their critical and analytical perspectives on theory and current data.' Ecology

'The book is well edited and provides stimulating reading throughout. It is a pleasure to see the robust and uninhibited use of terms considered too inexact or teleological in some quarters: adaptation, strategy, stress and competition. A very interesting glimpse of the possible directions in which future research may lie.' The Journal of Applied Ecology

`An excellent series of synthetic reviews of patterns and strategies of plant reproductive ecology.' Acta Botanica Neerlandica

`This is an excellent book.' Evolution

'This is a most welcome paperback edition ... It presents an excellent series of reviews on topics in plant reproductive biology at a price which is now more attractive to research students and undergraduates.' P. Gibbs, 1991 Annals of Botany Company

Synopsis

This collection of reviews by leading investigators examines plant reproduction within a framework of evolutionary ecology. The contributors discuss conceptual issues, showing the importance of sex allocation, sexual selection and inclusive fitness, and the dimensions of paternity and maternity in plants. The evolution, maintenance, and loss of self-incompatibility in plants, the nature of sex choice, and sex dimorphism are all explored. Specific forms of biotic interactions shaping the evolution of plant reproductive strategy are discussed, and a taxonomically based review of the reproductive biology of non-angiosperm plant groups - such as bryophytes, ferns and algae - is presented. Together these studies focus on the complexities of plant life cycles and the distinctive reproductive biologies of these organisms, while showing the similarities between non-flowering plants and the more thoroughly documented flowering species.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195063945
ISBN 13 
9780195063943
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
360
Editor
Doust Jon Lovett