Principles of Dispersal in Higher Plants
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-87927-2 (ISBN)
I. Introduction.- A. The Place of Dispersal in the Chain of Life.- B. Limitations and Objections.- C. History and General Literature.- II. General Terminology.- III. The Units of Dispersal.- Vegetative Parts in Dispersal and False Vivipary.- IV. The Relation Between Flowers, Seeds and Fruits.- A. Seed and Fruit.- B. Morphological Fruit Systems.- C. Morphological Interaction Between Fruit and Flower.- D. Inadequacy of Current Fruit Terminology.- V. Ecological Dispersal Classes, Established on the Basis of the Dispersing Agents.- A. General.- B. Invertebrates.- C. Fishes and Ichthyochory.- D. Reptiles and Saurochory.- E. Birds and Ornithochory.- F. Mammals and Mammaliochory.- G. Ants and Myrmecochory.- H. Wind and Anemochory.- J. Water and Hydrochory.- K. Epizoochory, Transport on the Outside of Animals in General.- L. Autochory, Dispersal by the Plant Itself.- M. Barochory, Dispersal by Weight Only.- N. Retrospective View.- VI. Dispersal Strategy and the Biocoenosis.- A. Atelochory.- B. Polychory and Attendant Phenomena.- C. Concluding Remarks on Synecology.- VII. Establishment.- A. General.- B. Fixation.- C. Vivipary.- D. Germination.- VIII. The Evolution of Dispersal Organs in General.- A. Aims.- B. Isosporous Pteridophytes.- C. Heterosporous Pteridophytes with Free Megaspores.- D. Pteridosperms.- E. Gymnosperms (or Pre-Angiosperms).- F. Angiosperms.- IX. Ecological Developments in Leguminous Fruits.- X. Dispersal and the Evolution of Grasses.- A. Comparison with Cyperaceae.- B. Return to Gramineae (i.c. Oryzeae).- C. Bambusoid Grasses.- D. Bamboos.- E. Open Plains and Higher Grasses.- F. Some More Remarks on Awns and on Establishment.- G. Retrospective Views.- XI. Man and His Plants in Relation to Dispersal.- References.- Index of Scientific Plant Names.- Index of Scientific Animal Names.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.3.2012 |
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Zusatzinfo | X, 218 p. |
Verlagsort | Berlin |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 358 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik |
Schlagworte | biocoenosis • Biology • Cyperaceae • desert • Development • Evolution • Flora • Forest • Gramineae • Pflanzenausbreitung • Plant • plants • Pollination • Reproductive Biology |
ISBN-10 | 3-642-87927-6 / 3642879276 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-642-87927-2 / 9783642879272 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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