TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turner,I.M.
TI  - The ecology of trees in the tropical rain forest
T2  - Cambridge tropical biology series
SN  - 9780511542206 (ebook)
AV  - QK938.R34 T87 2001
U1  - 577.34 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Rain forest plants
KW  - Ecophysiology
KW  - Trees
KW  - Tropics
KW  - Rain forest ecology
KW  - Forests and forestry
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 1. Introduction -- 2. The growing tree -- 3. Tree performance -- 4. Reproductive biology -- 5. Seeds and seedlings -- 6. Classificatory systems for tropical trees
N2  - Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur. Yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the workings of the forest itself. This book aims to summarise contemporary understanding of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees. The emphasis is on comparative ecology, an approach that can help to identify possible adaptive trends and evolutionary constraints and which may also lead to a workable ecological classification for tree species, conceptually simplifying the rain-forest community and making it more amenable to analysis
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511542206
ER  -