Amazon.com description: Product Description: Completely revised for its second edition, this reference work covers the variety of techniques which plant ecologists use, ranging from those requiring the minimum of equipment to those requiring more sophisticated appparatus. In the new edition, physiological ecology has been been divided into its component parts, and there are new sections on population dynamics, local site history and data analysis. Each chapter has been written by an expert or group of specialists in that particular field with the overall aim of producing a laboratory/field manual which is as comprehensive and complete as possible in its coverage.