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: Paperback
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780521566438
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Environmental science; Plant ecology; Vegetation and climate; Life Sciences - Botany; Flowers; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Science / Biology; Climatic changes; Life Sciences - Biology - General; International Geosphere-Biosph; Plant ecophysiology
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.