ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE MINERAL NUTRITION OF PLANTS
Written by I.H. Rorison, et al
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications
in 1969
ISBN: 0632056606
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ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE MINERAL NUTRITION OF PLANTS
Written by I.H. Rorison, et al.
Stock no. 553707
1st.
1969.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A symposium of the British Ecological Society 1968. Edited by Rorison. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour frontis. B/w photos. xxi and 484 pages including index. ISBN: 0632056606. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned to spine, folds and top edge, grubby marks to front panel.
Front cover
Contents
- SECTION ONE. MINERAL NUTRITION AND PLANT DISTRIBUTION
- The Effect of Liming and Fertilizers on the Botanical Composition of Permanent Grassland, and on the Yield of Hay
- Distribution of Pasture Plants in Relation to Chemical Properties of the Soil
- Influence of Mineral Nutrition on the Zonation of Flowering Plants in Coastal Salt-Marshes
- The Application of Ordination Techniques
- An Investigation of the Ecological Significance of Limechorosis by Means of Large-scale Comparative Experiments
- Discussion on Mineral Nutrition and Plant Distribution
- SECTION TWO. MINERAL NUTRIENT SUPPLY FROM SOILS
- The Soil Model and Its Application to Plant Nutrition
- Cation Equilibria and Competition Between Ions
- Phosphate Equilibria in Soil
- The Transport of Ions in the Soil around Plant Roots
- Discussion on Mineral Nutrient Supply from Soils
- SECTION THREE. MINERAL NUTRITION OF THE WHOLE PLANT SYSTEM
- Ecological Inferences from Laboratory Experiments on Mineral Nutrition
- The Absorption of Nutrients by Plants from Different Zones in the Soil
- The Influence of the Microflora on the Accumulation of Ions by Plants
- The Relation of Growth to the Chief Ionic Constituents of the Plant
- Ion Uptake and Ionic Balance in Plants in Relation to the Form of Nitrogen Nutrition
- Intra-specific Variations in Mineral Nutrition of Plants from Different Habitats
- Discussion in Mineral Nutrition of the Whole Plant System
- SECTION FOUR. MECHANISMS OF MINERAL NUTRITION
- The Physiology of the Uptake of Ions by the Growing Plant Cell
- The Properties of Mechanisms Involved in the Uptake and Utilization of Calcium and Potassium by Plants in Relation to an Understanding of Plant Distribution
- The Uptake of Phosphate and its Transport within the Plant
- Ion Movement within the Plant and its Integration with other Physiological Processes
- Discussion (A) on Mechanisms of Mineral Nutrition
- Mineral Metabolism of Halophytes
- Differences in the Properties of the Acid Phosphatases of Plant Roots and their Significance in the Evolution of Edaphic Ecotypes
- Metabolic Aspects of Aluminium Toxicity and soe Possible Mechanisms for Resistance
- Heavy Metal Tolerance in Plants
- Discussion (B) on Mechanisms of Mineral Nutrition
- SECTION FIVE. SUMMATION
- An Ecologist's Viewpoint
- A Soil Scientist's Viewpoint
- A Physiologist's Viewpoint
- Discussion
- List of thos who attended the Symposium