Plant Ecology

Plant ecologists study the distribution and abundance of plant life, as well as the interactions between plants and their natural environment (sunlight, climate, habitat). This field of study is vital to human life. Not only do human beings depend on plants for food, but factors that affect plant life will also affect our entire planet.Selected Contents: Seed Dispersal and Establishment of Endangered Plants on Oceanic Islands: The Janzen-Connell Model, and the Use of Ecological Analogues; Relative Crystallinity of Plant Biomass: Studies on Assembly, Adaptation and Acclimation; Crown Plasticity and Competition for Canopy Space: A New Spatially Implicit Model Parameterized for 250 North American Tree Species; Functional Diversity of PlantPollinator Interaction Webs Enhances the Persistence of Plant Communities; Stochastic Species Turnover and Stable Coexistence in a Species-Rich, Fire-Prone Plant Community; Shrub Invasion Decreases Diversity and Alters Community Stability in Northern Chihuahuan Desert Plant Communities; Short Lag Times for Invasive Tropical Plants: Evidence from Experimental Plantings in Hawai'i; Climate Change and the Future of California's Endemic Flora; Planting the Seeds of a New Paradigm; Ants Sow the Seeds of Global Diversification in Flowering Plants; Of Asian Forests and European Fields: Eastern U.S. Plant Invasions in a Global Floristic Context; Trade-Offs between the Metabolic Rate and Population Density of Plants; Climate Change as an Ecosystem Architect: Implications to Rare Plant Ecology, Conservation, and Restoration; Shifting Global Invasive Potential of European Plants with Climate Change; An Ecological Analysis of the Herbivory-Elicited JA Burst and its Metabolism: Plant Memory Processes and Predictions of the Moving Target Model; Index