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In this first comprehensive treatment of plant biomechanics, Karl J. Niklas analyzes plant form and provides a far deeper understanding of how form is a response to basic physical laws. He examines the ways in which these laws constrain the organic expression of form, size, and growth in a variety of plant structures, and in plants as whole organisms, and he draws on the fossil record as well as on studies of extant species to present a genuinely evolutionary view of the response of plants to abiotic as well as biotic constraints. Well aware that some readers will need an introduction to basic biomechanics or to basic botany, Niklas provides both, as well as an extensive glossary, and he has included a number of original drawings and photographs to illustrate major structures and concepts.
This volume emphasizes not only methods of biomechanical analysis but also the ways in which it allows one to ask, and answer, a host of interesting questions. As Niklas points out in the first chapter, "From the archaic algae to the most derived multicellular terrestrial plants, from the spectral properties of light-harvesting pigments in chloroplasts to the stacking of leaves in the canopies of trees, the behavior of plants is in large part responsive to and intimately connected with the physical environment. In addition, plants tend to be exquisitely preserved in the fossil record, thereby giving us access to the past." Its biomechanical analyses of various types of plant cells, organs, and whole organisms, and its use of the earliest fossil records of plant life as well as sophisticated current studies of extant species, make this volume a unique and highly integrative contribution to studies of plant form, evolution, ecology, and systematics.
This volume emphasizes not only methods of biomechanical analysis but also the ways in which it allows one to ask, and answer, a host of interesting questions. As Niklas points out in the first chapter, "From the archaic algae to the most derived multicellular terrestrial plants, from the spectral properties of light-harvesting pigments in chloroplasts to the stacking of leaves in the canopies of trees, the behavior of plants is in large part responsive to and intimately connected with the physical environment. In addition, plants tend to be exquisitely preserved in the fossil record, thereby giving us access to the past." Its biomechanical analyses of various types of plant cells, organs, and whole organisms, and its use of the earliest fossil records of plant life as well as sophisticated current studies of extant species, make this volume a unique and highly integrative contribution to studies of plant form, evolution, ecology, and systematics.
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cell wall infrastructure, multinet model, ovulate organs, pressurized cellular solids, autogyroscopic seeds, compound helical trajectory, dynamic beam theory, lodging safety factor, nonvascular land plants, ovulate structures, vascular sporophyte, coaxial forces, living symplast, meristematic origins, clasping leaf sheaths, diplobiontic life cycle, critical buckling length, vascular tissue system, ambient flow speed, helicoidal model, hydrostatic tissues, lacking secondary growth, neighboring microfibrils, average tissue density, secondary cell wall layers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Theory of Elasticity (McGraw-Hill Classic Textbook Reissue Series) by Stephen P. Timoshenko on page 56
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame on page 424
- On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson on page 234
- The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault on page 313
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- Scaling in Biology (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings) by James H. Brown on page 84, page 111, and page 194
- Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology by Park S. Nobel on page 35, and page 292
- Illustrating Evolutionary Computation with Mathematica (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence) by Christian Jacob in Back Matter
- PLANT ARCHITECTURE AND ITS MAN by TURNBULL on page 234
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