BOTANY VOLUME 4 - ECOLOGY - 2007

    Preface to the Russian Edition

    Introduction

12. FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANT ECOLOGY

    12.1. Limitation, Success, and Optimum

    12.2. Stress and Adaptation

    12.3. The Time Factor and Non-Linear Responses

    12.4. Biological Variation

    12.5. The Ecosystem and Its Structure

    12.6. Approaches to Plant Ecology Research

13. PLANTS IN THEIR HABITAT

    13.1. Radiation and Energy Budget

    13.2. Light as a Signal

    13.3. Temperature Tolerance

    13.4. Mechanical Stress

    13.5. Water Relations

    13.6. Nutrient Budget

    13.7. Growth and Carbon Balance

    13.8. Biotic Interactions

    13.9. Human Use of Biomass and Land

14. POPULATION AND PLANT COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

    14.1. Population Ecology

    14.2. Plant Distribution Ranges

    14.3. Vegetation Ecology

15. GLOBAL VEGETATION

    15.1. Vegetation of Central Europe

    15.2. Earth's Biomes

    Five Global Major Types of Marine Coastal Vegetation