Carnivorous Plants
Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 February 2019
- ISBN 9780198833727
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages564 pages
- Size 248x192x26 mm
- Weight 1220 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 110 60
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Short description:
This book is a synthesis of the latest research on carnivorous plants, focusing on their physiology, ecology, evolution, and future conservation and research efforts.
MoreLong description:
Carnivorous plants have fascinated botanists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists, physiologists, developmental biologists, anatomists, horticulturalists, and the general public for centuries. Charles Darwin was the first scientist to demonstrate experimentally that some plants could actually attract, kill, digest, and absorb nutrients from insect prey; his book Insectivorous Plants (1875) remains a widely-cited classic. Since then, many movies and plays, short stories, novels, coffee-table picture books, and popular books on the cultivation of carnivorous plants have been produced. However, all of these widely read products depend on accurate scientific information, and most of them have repeated and recycled data from just three comprehensive, but now long out of date, scientific monographs. The field has evolved and changed dramatically in the nearly 30 years since the last of these books was published, and thousands of scientific papers on carnivorous plants have appeared in the academic journal literature. In response, Ellison and Adamec have assembled the world's leading experts to provide a truly modern synthesis. They examine every aspect of physiology, biochemistry, genomics, ecology, and evolution of these remarkable plants, culminating in a description of the serious threats they now face from over-collection, poaching, habitat loss, and climatic change which directly threaten their habitats and continued persistence in them.
As a review of the most up to date research on carnivorous plants, this is ideal for senior undergraduate or graduate students, academics, and those with a keen interest in carnivorous plants...It rewards the careful and thorough reader who is passionate about botany.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Overview
Introduction
Biogeography and habitats of carnivorous plants
Evolution of carnivory in angiosperms
Part II: Systematics and evolution of carnivorous plants
Systematics and evolution of Droseraceae
Systematics and evolution of Nepenthes
Systematics and evolution of Lentibulariaceae: I. Pinguicula
Systematics and evolution of Lentibulariaceae: II. Genlisea
Systematics and evolution of Lentibulariaceae: III. Utricularia
Systematics and evolution of Sarraceniaceae
Systematics and evolution of small genera of carnivorous plants
Carnivorous plant genomes
Part III: Physiology, form, and function
Attraction of prey
Functional anatomy of carnivorous traps
Motile traps
Non-motile traps
Biochemistry of prey digestion and nutrient absorption
Mineral nutrition of terrestrial carnivorous plants
Why are plants carnivorous? Cost/benefit analysis, whole-plant growth, and the context- specific advantages of botanical carnivory
Ecophysiology of aquatic carnivorous plants
Biotechnology with carnivorous plants
Part IV: Ecology
Prey selection and specialization by carnivorous plants
Reproductive biology and prey-pollinator conflicts
Commensals of Nepenthes pitchers
Pitcher-plant communities as model systems for addressing fundamental questions in ecology and evolution
The Utricularia-associated microbiome: composition, function, and ecology
Nutritional mutualisms of Nepenthes and Roridula
Part V: The future of carnivorous plants
Conservation of carnivorous plants
Estimating the exposure of carnivorous plants to rapid climatic change
The future of research with carnivorous plants
