New Book Available
Plants at the Margin: Ecological Limits and Climate Change
By Robert Crawford
ISBN-13: 9780521623094
Cambridge University Press
For more information, please go to:
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521623094
Cambridge University Press announces a new book, now available for
pre-order. "Plants at the Margin: Ecological Limits and Climate Change,"
by Robert Crawford is heavily centered on arctic and other cold climate
region plants. Biogeography, demography, reproductive biology,
physiology, and genetics all provide cogent explanations as to why
limits occur where they do; this book brings together these different
avenues of inquiry, and is detailed with 366 full-color illustration
plates, printed on fine-art paper. It is directed at a broad audience
and is suited for arctic researchers and students, as well as the
general public.
Contents include:
1. Recognizing margins
2. Biodiversity in marginal areas
3. Resource acquisition in marginal habitats
4. Reproduction at the periphery
5. Arctic and sub-Arctic treelines and the tundra taiga interface
6. Plant survival in a warmer Arctic
7. Land-plants at coastal margins
8. Survival at the water's edge
9. Woody plants at the margin
10. Plants at high altitudes
11. Man at the margins
12. Summary and conclusions
For pre-ordering and more information, please go to:
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521623094