In Vogel’s account of The life of a Leaf, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf’s world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own—answeri…
In this book, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf's world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own.
In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world tha…
In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world tha…
Ecology of leaf longevity
by Kikuzawa, Kihachirō, Lechowicz, Martin J.
fromEcological research monographs
Ecology of leaf longevity
by Kikuzawa, Kihachirō, Lechowicz, Martin John
fromEcological research monographs
Ecology of leaf longevity
by Kikuzawa, Kihachirō, Lechowicz, Martin J.
fromEcological research monographs
Leaf longevity is a fundamental process underlying patterns of variation in foliar phenology and determining the distinction between deciduous and evergreen plant species. Variation in leaf longevity is associated with a wide array of differences in the physiology, anatomy, morp…