Bryophyte Biology
Contributors: Shaw, A. Jonathan
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 581
ISBN-13: 9780511455773
Subjects: Bryophytes
Description: An extensive survey of hornworts, liverworts, and mosses for advanced students and researchers.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta; 2 Morphology, anatomy, and classification of the Bryophyta; 3 New insights into morphology, anatomy, and systematics of hornworts; 4 Phylogenomics and early land plant evolution; 5 Mosses as model organisms for developmental, cellular, and molecular biology; 6 Physiological ecology; 7 Biochemical and molecular mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in bryophytes; 8 Mineral nutrition and substratum ecology.; title: 9 The structure and function of.bryophyte-dominated peatlands10 Population and community ecology of bryophytes; 11 Bryophyte species and speciation; 12 Conservation biology of bryophytes; Index.