"How do we understand the boundaries of individual creatures? What are the systems of interdependency that bind all living creatures together? Plants were among thefirst to colonize the planet. They created the soil and the atmosphere that made life possible for animals. They ar…
"Writer and anthropologist C. Thomas Shay traces the key roles of plants since humans arrived in the Northern Plains at the end of the Ice Age and began to hunt the region's woodlands, fish its waters, and gather its flora"--. "In Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and an…
Explores the discovery, nature, and role of genes in evolution and development.
"Mathematical Models of Plant-Herbivore Interactions addresses mathematical models in the study of practical questions in ecology, particularly factors that affect herbivory, including plant defense, herbivore natural enemies, and adaptive herbivory, as well as the effects of th…
Evolution, bioenergy, plant cell, genetics, morphology, ecology.
The transformation of an ecological policy : acclimatization of Cuban tobacco varieties and public scandalization in the French empire, c. 1860-1880 / Alexander van Wickeren -- Securing resources for the industries of Wilhelmine Germany : tropical agriculture and phytopathology …
"This collection explores the networks that shaped ecological change within and between European and Middle Eastern empires during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is divided into three parts. The first focuses on the role of nation-building in trans-imperial ec…
Tapping such wide-ranging topics as genetics, gene regulatory networks, phenotype mapping, and multicellularity, as well as palaeobotany, Karl J. Niklas's Plant Evolution offers fresh insight into these differences ... Niklas incorporates data from more than a decade of new rese…