Plant Functional Types
Subtitle: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book Series)
Contributors: T. M. Smith (Editor); H. H. Shugart (Editor); F. I. Woodward (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 13, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780521482318
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Environmental science; Plant Ecology; Science; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science/Mathematics; Flowers; Life Sciences - Botany; Plant ecophysiology; Science / Biology
First sentence: In recent years ecologists have placed increasing emphasis on the use of non-phylogenetic classifications of organisms when describing the structure and functioning of ecosystems.