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Physiological Processes in Plant Ecology

Toward a Synthesis with Atriplex

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  1. C. B. Osmond

    1. Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra City, Australia

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  2. O. Björkman

    1. Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, USA

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  3. D. J. Anderson

    1. School of Botany, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 36)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Physiological Processes in Plant Ecology: the Structure for a Synthesis

    • C. B. Osmond, O. Björkman, D. J. Anderson
    Pages 1-11

  3. Systematic and Geographical State of Atriplex

    • C. B. Osmond, O. Björkman, D. J. Anderson
    Pages 12-40

  4. Genecological Differentiation

    • C. B. Osmond, O. Björkman, D. J. Anderson
    Pages 41-65

  5. Genetic and Evolutionary Relationships in Atriplex

    • C. B. Osmond, O. Björkman, D. J. Anderson
    Pages 66-110

  6. Atriplex Communities: Regional Environments and Their Ecological Analysis

    • C. B. Osmond, O. Björkman, D. J. Anderson
    Pages 111-154

  7. Germination and Seedling Establishment

    • C. B. Osmond, O. Björkman, D. J. Anderson
    Pages 155-190

  8. Absorption of Ions and Nutrients

    • C. B. Osmond, O. Björkman, D. J. Anderson
    Pages 191-250

  9. Water Movement and Plant Response to Water Stress

    • C. B. Osmond, O. Björkman, D. J. Anderson
    Pages 251-290

  10. Photosynthesis

    • C. B. Osmond, O. Björkman, D. J. Anderson
    Pages 291-377

  11. Productivity and Environment

    • C. B. Osmond, O. Björkman, D. J. Anderson
    Pages 378-425

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 426-468
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About this book

In the spring of 1969 a small meeting was convened at the CSIRO Riverina Laboratory, Deniliquin, New South Wales, to discuss the biology of the genus Atriplex, a group of plants considered by those who attended to be of profound importance both in relation to range management in the region and as a tool in physiological research. The brief report of this meeting (Jones, 1970) now serves as a marker for the subsequent remarkable increase in research on this genus, and served then to interest the editors of the Ecological Studies Series in the present volume. This was an exciting time in plant physiology, particularly in the areas of ion absorption and photosynthesis, and unknowingly several laboratories were engaged in parallel studies of these processes using the genus Atriplex. It was also a time at which it seemed that numerical methods in plant ecology could be used to delineate significant processes in arid shrubland ecosystems. Nevertheless, to presume to illustrate and integrate plant physiology and ecology using examples from a single genus was to presume much. The deficiencies which became increasingly apparent during the preparation of the present book were responsible for much new research described in these pages.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra City, Australia

    C. B. Osmond

  • Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, USA

    O. Björkman

  • School of Botany, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    D. J. Anderson

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Physiological Processes in Plant Ecology

  • Book Subtitle: Toward a Synthesis with Atriplex

  • Authors: C. B. Osmond, O. Björkman, D. J. Anderson

  • Series Title: Ecological Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67637-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-67639-0Published: 14 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-67637-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0070-8356

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 470

  • Topics: Ecology

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