Advances in ecological research (volume 5)

This book fulfills the need for an up-to-date and integrated account of the water relationships of plants. It deals not only with cell and tissue-water relationships, but with plant environment interactions at both the single plant and plant community level. The approach is based throughout on the development of general principles, against which experimental evidence is examined and measurement techniques evaluated. "It has much of interest to pure scientists in a great variety of scientific disciplines ... It holds, therefore, also much of value to the agricultural and horticultural scientist. . . . the author has appreciated the significance of placing phenomena in an ecological context.