Download Plant Ecology in the Middle East PDF EPUB
Author: Ahmad Hegazy
Pages: 352
Size: 2.046,76 Kb
Publication Date: March 15,2016
Category: Botany
This advanced textbook explores the intriguing flora and plant ecology of the center East, framed by a changing desert landscape, global climate change, and the arc of history. This vast area has been mainly under-recognized, under-studied, and certainly under-published, due partly to the difficulties posed to analyze by political disputes and individual conflict, and a treatise about them is currently timely. The reserve integrates Middle Eastern plant geography and its own major motorists (geo-tectonics, seed and fruit dispersal, plant practical types, etc.) with the concepts of plant ecology. The authors are the many specific adaptations to desert and dryland ecosystems which includes succulence, water-conserving photosynthesis, and an extraordinary selection of other life background strategies.
It’ll be essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate college students taking programs in plant ecology, development, systematics, biodiversity, and conservation, and can also be of curiosity and make use of to a professional target audience of botanists, conservation biologists, and practitioners employed in dryland ecosystems.
Plant Ecology in the centre East is usually a timely synthesis of the field, placing a fresh baseline for future study. The reserve concludes by talking about conservation in your community, highlighting five regional biodiversity hotspots where in fact the problems of desertification, habitat reduction, and additional threats to plant biodiversity are especially severe. They explore the forming of ‘climate relicts’, and explain the long background of domestication in your community alongside the many reciprocal ramifications of agriculture on plant ecology.