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Tables of Contents for Plant Life Histories
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contributors
ix
2
Preface
xi
J. L. Harper
J. Silvertown
M. Franco
I Phylogenetic perspectives
3
54
1 Comparing plants and connecting traits
3
14
Jonathan Silvertown
Mike Dodd
2 Phylogenetic uncertainties and sensitivity analyses in comparative biology
17
19
Michael J. Donoghue
David D. Ackerly
3 Comparative ecology of the native and alien floras of the British Isles
36
21
M. J. Crawley
P. H. Harvey
A. Purvis
II Reproductive traits
57
64
4 The comparative biology of pollination and mating in flowering plants
57
20
Spencer C. H. Barrett
Lawrence D. Harder
Anne C. Worley
5 How does self-pollination evolve? Inferences from floral ecology and molecular genetic variation
77
25
Daniel J. Schoen
Martin T. Morgan
Thomas Bataillon
6 Effects of life history traits on genetic diversity in plant species
102
19
J. L. Hamrick
M. J. W. Godt
III Seeds
121
70
7 Evolutionary ecology of seed dormancy and seed size
121
22
Mark Rees
8 Comparative ecology of seed size and dispersal
143
20
Mark Westoby
Michelle Leishman
Janice Lord
9 Packaging and provisioning in plant reproduction
163
28
D. Lawrence Venable
IV Recruitment and growth
191
62
10 Comparative ecology of clonal plants
191
19
J. M. van Groenendael
L. Klimes
J. Klimesova
R. J. J. Hendriks
11 Life history variation in plants: an exploration of the fast-slow continuum hypothesis
210
18
Miguel Franco
Jonathan Silvertown
12 Life history evolution in heterogeneous environments: a review of theory
228
25
Richard M. Sibly
V Interactions
253
54
13 Insect-plant interactions: the evolution of component communities
253
12
Douglas J. Futuyma
Charles Mitter
14 Evolutionary trends in root-microbe symbioses
265
18
A. H. Fitter
B. Moyersoen
15 Competitive ability: definitions, contingency and correlated traits
283
24
Deborah E. Goldberg
Index
307