Böcker av James R. (University of Utah Ehleringer

This textbook provides a foundation for understanding how the changes underway impact structure and function in the world's major biomes, while also describing how evolution has resulted in a multitude of features that shaped plants and their capacities to persist across widely contrasting environments.

Addressing issues of global change from an evolutionary perspective, this book is divided into four parts. It discusses the impact of climate change on the spatial distribution of plants; the means by which plants acquire resources in a changing environment; plant responses to predictable and unpredictable environmental conditions affecting resource availability; and the integration of currently disparate fields to provide the foundation for a new literature on how plants respond to a world changing faster than ever before.