Book navigation
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents Page
- Preface
- Editing, authorship and acknowledgements
- Part I - Perspectives on plant science
- Part II - Processes and resources for growth
- Part III - Coodination of growth and reproduction
- Part IV - Ecophysiology in natural and managed communities
- Chapter 12 - Sunlight: an all pervasive source of energy
- Chapter 13 - Carbon dioxide: a universal substrate
- Chapter 14 - Temperature: a driving variable for plant growth and development
- Chapter 15 - Water: a limiting factor
- Chapter 16 - Nutrients: a sparse resource
- Chapter 17 - Salt: an environmental stress
- Chapter 18 - Waterlogging and submergence: surviving poor aeration
- Chapter 19 - Fire: an ecosystem sculpture
- Chapter 20 - Herbicide resistance: a case of rapid evolution