CHAPTER 1 The Science of Plant Ecology ........................ 1
PART I THE INDIVIDUAL AND ITS ENVIRONMENT .................... 15
CHAPTER 2 Photosynthesis and the Light Environment ........... 17
CHAPTER 3 Water Relations and Energy Balance ................. 43
CHAPTER 4 Soils, Mineral Nutrition, and Belowground
Interactions ....................................... 71
PART II POPULATIONS AND EVOLUTION ............................. 99
CHAPTER 5 Population Structure, Growth, and Decline ......... 101
CHAPTER 6 Evolutionary Processes and Outcomes ............... 129
CHAPTER 7 Growth and Reproduction of Individuals ............ 155
CHAPTER 8 Plant Life Histories .............................. 185
PART III COMMUNITIES AND THEIR CAUSES ......................... 203
CHAPTER 9 Community Properties .............................. 205
CHAPTER 10 Competition and Other Interactions Among Plants ... 225
CHAPTER 11 Herbivory and Plant-Pathogen Interactions ......... 257
CHAPTER 12 Disturbance and Succession ........................ 283
CHAPTER 13 Local Abundance, Diversity, and Rarity ............ 307
PART IV ECOSYSTEMS AND LANDSCAPES ............................ 325
CHAPTER 14 Ecosystem Processes ............................... 327
CHAPTER 15 Communities in Landscapes ......................... 353
CHAPTER 16 Landscape Ecology ................................. 369
PART V GLOBAL PATTERNS AND PROCESSES ........................ 389
CHAPTER 17 Climate and Physiognomy ........................... 391
CHAPTER 18 Biomes ............................................ 417
CHAPTER 19 Regional and Global Diversity ..................... 445
CHAPTER 20 Paleoecology ...................................... 469
CHAPTER 21 Global Change: Humans and Plants .................. 485
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