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Ecophysiology of Economic Plants in Arid and Semi-arid Lands - Adaptations of Desert Organisms Gerald E. Wickens 1st Ed. Softcover of Orig. Ed. 1998 edition
Ecophysiology of Economic Plants in Arid and Semi-arid Lands - Adaptations of Desert Organisms
Gerald E. Wickens
Eeonomie plants range from those that are eommercially utilised by the industrial nations of the world to those that safeguard the survival of hunter-gatherer aboriginal eommunities. In a world of inereasing human and livestock populations, land and environment degradation, species loss and climatic change, it is becoming inerea singly important to work for the sustainable management of the world's natural resourees. This is especially important for the arid and semi-arid regions where any abuse of the harsh environment is unforgiving. Plant resourees are especially important sinee they proteet the environment, provide habitats for both flora and fauna, and direetly or indireetly provide the resourees for man's survival. An understanding of how plants are adapted to survive is an essential tool for the better management of the environment. Sinee there are over 20000 useful plants in the arid and sem i-arid regions of the world, of which only a relative few have been even partially investigated, the writer makes no apologies for whieh plants have been included or ignored. All the plants mentioned in the introductory ehap ters marked with an asterisk are diseussed more fully in Chapter 11.
343 pages, 12 black & white tables, biography
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Paperback Book (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado) |
| Publicado | 15 de diciembre de 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9783642080890 |
| Editores | Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gm |
| Páginas | 343 |
| Dimensiones | 156 × 234 × 18 mm · 503 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |