Plant Functional Diversity
Organism traits, community structure, and ecosystem properties
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 December 2015
- ISBN 9780198757368
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 249x196x19 mm
- Weight 724 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is the first book to present the rationale for a trait-based approach to functional diversity in the context of comparative plant ecology.
MoreLong description:
Biological diversity, the variety of living organisms on Earth, is traditionally viewed as the diversity of taxa, and species in particular. However, other facets of diversity also need to be considered for a comprehensive understanding of evolutionary and ecological processes. This novel book demonstrates the advantages of adopting a functional approach to diversity in order to improve our understanding of the functioning of ecological systems and their components. The focus is on plants, which are major components of these systems, and for which the functional approach has led to major scientific advances over the last 20 years.
Plant Functional Diversity presents the rationale for a trait-based approach to functional diversity in the context of comparative plant ecology and agroecology. It demonstrates how this approach can be used to address a number of highly debated questions in plant ecology pertaining to plant responses to their environment, controls on plant community structure, ecosystem properties, and the services these deliver to human societies. This research level text will be of particular relevance and use to graduate students and professional researchers in plant ecology, agricultural sciences and conservation biology.
Each of the ten chapters is excellently structured... The book is also nicely illustrated, extremely well referenced and has a useful index. In a nutshell, the book is an absolute must-read for graduate students, ecologists, agricultural scientists and conservation biologists interested in the functional approach to biological diversity.
Table of Contents:
A functional approach to biological diversity
Trait-based ecology: definitions, methods, and a conceptual framework
The functional characterisation of plants
Gradients, response traits, and ecological strategies
A functional approach to plant community structure
Plant traits and ecosystem properties
Functional diversity and ecosystem services
Functional diversity in agriculture: the cases of grasslands and crop weeds
Managing functional diversity data
Perspectives for functional diversity research
