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Cargando... The Nature of Plants: Habitats, Challenges and Adaptions (edición 2005)por John Dawson
Información de la obraThe Nature of Plants: Habitats, Challenges, and Adaptations por John Dawson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Contents: The freeloaders - plants using plants; Not enough water - the plants of deserts and seasonally arid places; Rising from the ashes - plants and fire; Serpentine and salt - coping with toxic soils; Too much water - plants of rivers, lakes, swamps and margins of the sea; Too cold for trees - mountain and arctic plants; A love-hate relationship - plants and animals; Mostly hidden relationships - plants, fungi and bacteria; Plant evolution through the ages - an overview he Nature of Plants tells how plants adapt to the challenges of their habitats. Plants may live in places that provide too little rainfall, yet they thrive, either by evading drought, like the animals that live in deserts, or by tolerating the scarcity. There are plants that use other plants, climbing on them, strangling some, living in their leafy canopies, or parasitizing them. And The Nature of Plants explores the love-hate relationships that plants have with animals, some feeding on plants but others drawn into serving plants by pollinating them, scattering their fruits and seeds, or being eaten themselves. The mostly hidden associations that plants have with bacteria and fungi are also revealed. Illustrated throughout with superb color photographs, it is written in a way that is clear to anyone who wishes to understand the life of plan sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
There has always been interest in how animals live their lives -- it is easy for us to identify with them. But there are many remarkable stories about plants that deserve to be told. The Nature of Plants tells how plants adapt to the challenges of their habitats. Plants may live in places that provide too little rainfall, yet they thrive, either by evading drought, like the animals that live in deserts, or by tolerating the scarcity. There are plants that use other plants, climbing on them, strangling some, living in their leafy canopies, or parasitizing them. And The Nature of Plants explores the love-hate relationships that plants have with animals, some feeding on plants but others drawn into serving plants by pollinating them, scattering their fruits and seeds, or being eaten themselves. The mostly hidden associations that plants have with bacteria and fungi are also revealed. Illustrated throughout with superb color photographs, it is written in a way that is clear to anyone who wishes to understand the life of plants. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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