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Plant physiological ecology, 2nd edn
Plant physiological ecology, 2nd edn.H Lambers, FS ChapinIII,
TL Pons. 2008.
New York: Springer. $79. 95
(hardback). 610 pp.
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Plant ecophysiology is the science that seeks to explain the physiological mechanisms underlying ecological observations. Much is made these days of the value of interdisciplinarity but, as the authors point out, ecophysiology is interdisciplinary by definition, since success requires an appreciation of the important ecological questions, and of the biophysical, biochemical and molecular processes needed to understand them.
Clearly therefore, one measure of the
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