| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 440 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Physiological ecology
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Physiological ecology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Plant stems : biomechanical adaptation for energy capture and influence on species distributions / Thomas J. Givnish -- Opportunities and constraints in the placement of flowers and fruits / Donald M. Waller and David A. Steingraeber -- Biomechanical optimum in woody stems / Claus Mattheck -- Shrub stems : form and function / Brayton F. Wilson -- Limitations on stem water transport and their consequences / John S. Sperry -- Patterns of xylem variation within a tree and their hydraulic and mechanical consequences / Barbara L. Gartner -- Stem water storage / N. Michele Holbrook -- Role of stems in transport, storage, and circulation of ions and metabolites by the whole plant / John S. Pate and W. Dieter Jeschke -- The low profile directors of carbon and nitrogen economy in plants : parenchyma cells associated with translocation channels / Aart J.E. Van Bel -- Stems in the biology of the tissue, organism, stand, and ecosystem / Thomas M. Hinckley and Paul J. Schulte. |
| Summary |
Stems, of various sizes and shapes, are involved in most of the organic processes and interactions of plants, ranging from support, transport, and storage to development and protection. The stem itself is a crucially important intermediary: it links above- and below ground organs-connecting roots to leaves. An international team of leading researchers vividly illustrate that stems are more than pipes, more than simple connecting and supporting structures; rather stems are critical, anatomically distinct structures of enormous variability. It is, to an unappreciated extent, this variability tha. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Stems (Botany)
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Stems (Botany) |
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Tree trunks.
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Tree trunks. |
| Indexed Term |
Plants Anatomy |
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Plants Physiology |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gartner, Barbara L.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Plant stems. San Diego, CA : Academic Press, ©1995 0122764609 9780122764608 (DLC) 95002197 (OCoLC)31969586 |
| ISBN |
9780080539089 (electronic book) |
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0080539084 (electronic book) |
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9780122764608 |
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0122764609 (alkaline paper) |
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