Seeds : the ecology of regeneration in plant communities /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
• Edition: 3rd edition.
• Subjects: Seeds > Ecology.; Regeneration (Botany); Plant Morphology and Structure.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Meteorology and Climate.; Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.; Plant Ecology.; Climate change.; Foraging.; Global warming.; Light.; Light relations.; Natural regeneration.; Persistence.; Plant anatomy.; Plant communities.; Seed banks.; Seed development.; Seed dispersal.; Seed dormancy.; Seed germination.; Seed morphology.; Seed predation.; Seeds.
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This book (11 chapters) presents an overview of seed ecophysiology and its role in shaping plant communities. Updated information on frugivory, seed dispersal, seed predation, light-mediated germination responses, chemical regulation of germination, and seed dormancy is provided. New chapter contrib...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of seed development, anatomy and morphology / Elwira Sliwinska and J. Derek Bewley
• Fruits and frugivory / Pedro Jordano
• The ecology of seed dispersal / Anna Traveset, Ruben Heleno and Manuel Nogales
• Seed predators and plant population dynamics / Michael J. Crawley
• Light-mediated germination / Thijs L. Pons
• The chemical environment in the soil seed bank / Henk W.M. Hilhorst
• Seed dormancy / Alistair J. Murdoch
• The chemical ecology of seed persistence in soil seed banks / Robert S. Gallagher, Mark B. Burnham and E. Patrick Fuerst
• Effects of climate change on regeneration by seeds / Rui Zhang and Kristen L. Granger
• The functional role of the soil seed bank in agricultural ecosystems / Nathalie Colbach
• The functional role of the soil seed banks in natural communities / Arne Saatkamp, Peter Poschlod and D. Lawrence Venable.