Bromeliaceae: Profile of an Adaptive Radiation
- Publisher : Cambridge University Press
- Illustrations : b/w text figs
Description:
Original edition. A comprehensive scientific study of the Bromeliaceae, a predominantly Neotropical family of flowering plants, examining their remarkable diversity and evolutionary adaptations. Covers vegetative and reproductive morphology, physiology, water and mineral nutrition, ecology, reproduction, relationships with animals, and evolutionary history. Particular attention is given to the adaptations that enable bromeliads to thrive as epiphytes in tropical forest canopies and in other challenging habitats, including specialised water-storage mechanisms and associations with insects and other animals. An important reference on the biology, ecology and evolution of this distinctive plant family, extensively illustrated with photographs, diagrams and tables.
Condition
Vg. Spine slightly faded.
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