Plant Allometry: The Scaling of Form and Process (Women in Culture and Society) - Hardcover

Niklas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226580806 ISBN 13: 9780226580807

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Synopsis

Allometry, the study of the growth rate of an organism's parts in relation to the whole, has produced various results in research on animals. This text applies allometry to studies of the evolution, morphology, physiology and reproduction of plants. The author covers a broad spectrum of plant life, from unicellular algae to towering trees, including fossil as well as extant taxa. He examines the relation between organic size and variations in plant form, metabolism, reproduction and evolution, and draws on the zoological literature to develop allometric techniques for the peculiar problems of plant height, the relation between body mass and body length, and size-correlated variations in rates of growth. For readers unfamiliar with the basics of allometry, an appendix explains basic statistical methods. This text should be useful reading for botanists interested in an original, quantitative approach to plant evolution and function, and for zoologists who want to learn more about the value of allometric techniques for studying evolution.

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About the Author

Karl J. Niklas is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Biology and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the Plant Biology Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0226580806
• ISBN 13: 9780226580807
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 412