{"product_id":"resource-strategies-of-wild-plants-9780691139128","title":"Resource Strategies of Wild Plants","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescribes the five major strategies of growth for terrestrial plants, and details how plants succeed when resources are scarce. This book explains how plants attain available nutrients, withstand the immense stresses of drying soils, and flourish in the race for light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This work would be excellent for a seminar\/discussion-style course for undergraduate and especially graduate students.\"--Choice \"Joseph Craine provides an excellent synthesis of current work and a detailed historical perspective... [T]his is a ... very useful resource for anyone interested in the topic... One of the strengths of this book is that ... it also suggests the next crucial steps for fully understanding resource strategies of plants.\"--Marko Spasojevic, Journal of Vegetation Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xi  Acknowledgments xv  Abbreviations xvii      CHAPTER 1: The Basis for Plant Strategies 1  Assessing Natural Selection 1  From Single Traits to Multitrait Strategies 5  Quantifying Plant Traits and Strategies 8  Ranking Strategies 9  Synthesis 13      CHAPTER 2: The History of Plant Strategies 15  Nutrients and the History of Plant Strategies 15  Grime 19  Chapin 26  Tilman 33  Laying the Foundation of Plant Strategies 41      CHAPTER 3: Stress and Disturbance 45  Defining Stress and Disturbance 45  Major Causes of Stress and Disturbance 48  How Herbivory Works 50  Growth in the Face of Stress and Disturbance 55  Responding after Stress and Disturbance 61  The Links to Resource Availability 62  Summary 62      CHAPTER 4: Resource Limitation 64  The Concept of Single-Resource limitation 65  History of the Nitrogen Cycle Concept 68  Pulses or Slow Bleeds? 75  Primer on the Phosphorus Cycle 79 Co-limitation in a Post-Liebigian World 80  Evaluating Costs in a Co-limited World 84  Trade-offs in Use Efficiency in a Co-limited World 87  Summary 89      CHAPTER 5: Competition for Nutrients and Light 91  Definitions and Types of Competition 92  Competition for Nutrients under Uniform Supplies 94  How Much Root Length? 104  Interference Competition 106  Competition for Nutrients under Heterogeneous Supplies 107  Competition for Light 109  Synthesis 114      CHAPTER 6: Comparing Negative Effects 119  Comparing Negative Effects 120  How to Measure the Importance of Stress and Disturbance  in Environments 122  How to Measure the Importance of Stress and Disturbance  in the Natural Selection of a Species 130  Importance of Factors at Low Nutrient Supply 132  Importance of Factors at High Nutrient Supply 139  The Relative Importance of Factors 145  Synthesis 146      CHAPTER 7: The Low-Nutrient Strategy 149  Physiological Traits 151  Whole-Plant Traits 169  Effects on Nitrogen Cycling 171  Revising the Low-Nutrient Strategy 173  Significance of Traits in Strategy 187  Synthesis 199      CHAPTER 8: The High-Resource Strategy 202  The Scope of This Chapter 204  Physiological Traits 205  Whole-Plant Traits 212  Effects on Nutrient Cycling 213  Revising the High-Resource Strategy 213 Significance of Traits in Strategy 217  Why the Race Ends 223  Synthesis 224      CHAPTER 9: The Low-Light Strategy 227  Physiological Traits 229  Whole-Plant Traits 233  Effects on Nutrient Cycling 236  Traits under High Light 236  Why These Patterns 239  The End of the Second Stage of Competition 246  Synthesis 248      CHAPTER 10: The Low-Water and Low-CO2 Strategies 251  Water 251  Carbon Dioxide 268  Summary 279      CHAPTER 11: A Synthesis of Plant Strategies 282  Application and the Way Forward 285  Genetics, Pleiotropy, and Plasticity 286  Limitation 287  Competition 289  Defense and Herbivory 290  Mechanisms of Coexistence 292  Biogeographic Patterns and Invasions 293  Global Change 295  Tree of Life 298      Bibliography 301  Index 327","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49922419720535,"sku":"9780691139128","price":55.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691139128.jpg?v=1738537832","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/resource-strategies-of-wild-plants-9780691139128","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}