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This new edition of a successful text, originally published in 1992, has been thoroughly revised and updated to include recent advances. In addition, new chapters have been introduced to ensure comprehensive coverage of all aspects of seed ecology. These include evolutionary ecology of seed size, the roles of fire and of gaps in regeneration and seedling colonization. Chapters are written by internationally acknowledged experts to give a comprehensive overview of all aspects of seed ecology which will be invaluable to advanced students and researchers in seed science and plant ecology.

Plant ecology. Plant sociology --- Plant embryology and development --- Seeds --- Plants --- Ecology. --- Reproduction. --- Ecology --- Reproduction --- Seeds - Ecology --- Plants - Reproduction

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What determines the number and size of the seeds produced by a plant? How often should it reproduce them? How often should a plant produce them? Why and how are seeds dispersed, and what are the implications for the diversity and composition of vegetation? These are just some of the questions tackled in this wide-ranging review of the role of seeds in the ecology of plants. The authors bring together information on the ecological aspects of seed biology, starting with a consideration of reproductive strategies in seed plants and progressing through the life cycle, covering seed maturation, dispersal, storage in the soil, dormancy, germination, seedling establishment, and regeneration in the field. The text encompasses a wide range of concepts of general relevance to plant ecology, reflecting the central role that the study of seed ecology has played in elucidating many fundamental aspects of plant community function.

Seeds --- Plants --- Gemmation (Botany) --- Plant reproduction --- Plant physiology --- Reproduction --- Plants, Sex in --- Plant spores --- Seed ecology --- Ecology. --- Reproduction. --- Seeds - Ecology --- Plants - Reproduction

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Some years ago, David Freedberg opened a dusty cupboard at Windsor Castle and discovered hundreds of vividly colored, masterfully precise drawings of all sorts of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds. Coming upon thousands more drawings like them across Europe, Freedberg finally traced them all back to a little-known scientific organization from seventeenth-century Italy called the Academy of Linceans (or Lynxes). Founded by Prince Federico Cesi in 1603, the Linceans took as their task nothing less than the documentation and classification of all of nature in pictorial form. In this first book-length study of the Linceans to appear in English, Freedberg focuses especially on their unprecedented use of drawings based on microscopic observation and other new techniques of visualization. Where previous thinkers had classified objects based mainly on similarities of external appearance, the Linceans instead turned increasingly to sectioning, dissection, and observation of internal structures. They applied their new research techniques to an incredible variety of subjects, from the objects in the heavens studied by their most famous (and infamous) member Galileo Galilei-whom they supported at the most critical moments of his career-to the flora and fauna of Mexico, bees, fossils, and the reproduction of plants and fungi. But by demonstrating the inadequacy of surface structures for ordering the world, the Linceans unwittingly planted the seeds for the demise of their own favorite method-visual description-as a mode of scientific classification. Profusely illustrated and engagingly written, Eye of the Lynx uncovers a crucial episode in the development of visual representation and natural history. And perhaps as important, it offers readers a dazzling array of early modern drawings, from magnificently depicted birds and flowers to frogs in amber, monstrously misshapen citrus fruits, and more.

Science --- History. --- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei --- galileo, philosopher, philosophical, astronomy, astronomer, natural, nature, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, colleagues, drawings, artistic, illustrations, science, scientific, europe, italy, academy, 1600s, pictorial, microscopic, observation, detail, flora, fauna, bees, plants, reproduction, interdisciplinary, pictures.

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Reproduction asexual --- Reproduction asexuee --- Reproduktie [Aseksuele ] --- Plants --- Reproduction, Asexual --- Asexual reproduction --- Gemmation (Zoology) --- Spores --- Gemmation (Botany) --- Plant reproduction --- Plant physiology --- Reproduction --- Plants, Sex in --- Plant spores --- Plant evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Evolution. --- Reproduction. --- Phylogeny --- REP Reproductive Biology --- apomixis --- asexual reproduction --- evolution --- genetics --- life history --- parthenogenesis --- plants --- reproduction --- reproductive biology --- Evolution --- Reproduction (Biology) --- Plants - Reproduction. --- Plants - Evolution. --- Reproduction, Asexual.

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This collection of reviews by leading investigators examines plant reproduction and sexuality within a framework of evolutionary ecology, providing an up-to-date account of the field. The contributors discuss conceptual issues, showing the importance of sex allocation, sexual selection and inclusive fitness, and the dimensions of paternity and maternity in plants. The evolution, maintenance, and loss of self-incompatibility in plants, the nature of 'sex choice' in plants, and sex dimorphism are all explored in detail. Specific forms of biotic interactions shaping the evolution of plant reproductive strategy are discussed, and a taxonomically based review of the reproductive ecology of non-angiosperm plant groups, such as bryophytes, ferns, and algae, is presented. Together these studies focus on the complexities of plant life cycles and the distinctive reproductive biologies of these organisms, while showing the similarities between nonflowering plants and the more thoroughly documented flowering species.

Plant ecology. Plant sociology --- Plant genetics. Plant evolution --- 581.56 --- 581.57 --- 581.16 --- Plant ecology --- Plants --- #WPLT:ecol --- #WPLT:dd.prof.J.Vendrig --- Gemmation (Botany) --- Plant reproduction --- Plant physiology --- Reproduction --- Plants, Sex in --- Plant spores --- Botany --- Ecology --- Breeding habits --- Means of protection. Means of attraction. Adaptations for self-preservation --- Reproduction. --- Plant ecology. --- 581.16 Reproduction --- 581.57 Means of protection. Means of attraction. Adaptations for self-preservation --- 581.56 Breeding habits --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Floristic ecology --- Plants - Reproduction