9780226580814-0226580814-Plant Allometry: The Scaling of Form and Process

Plant Allometry: The Scaling of Form and Process

ISBN-13: 9780226580814
ISBN-10: 0226580814
Edition: 1
Author: Karl J. Niklas
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback 412 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780226580814
ISBN-10: 0226580814
Edition: 1
Author: Karl J. Niklas
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback 412 pages

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Plant Allometry: The Scaling of Form and Process (ISBN-13: 9780226580814 and ISBN-10: 0226580814), written by authors Karl J. Niklas, was published by University of Chicago Press in 1994. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Plant Allometry: The Scaling of Form and Process (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Allometry, the study of the growth rate of an organism's parts in relation to the whole, has produced exciting results in research on animals. Now distinguished plant biologist Karl J. Niklas has written the first book to apply allometry to studies of the evolution, morphology, physiology, and reproduction of plants.

Niklas covers a broad spectrum of plant life, from unicellular algae to towering trees, including fossil as well as extant taxa. He examines the relation between organic size and variations in plant form, metabolism, reproduction, and evolution, and draws on the zoological literature to develop allometric techniques for the peculiar problems of plant height, the relation between body mass and body length, and size-correlated variations in rates of growth. For readers unfamiliar with the basics of allometry, an appendix explains basic statistical methods.

For botanists interested in an original, quantitative approach to plant evolution and function, and for zoologists who want to learn more about the value of allometric techniques for studying evolution, Plant Allometry makes a major contribution to the study of plant life.

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