Being alive on land: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Adaptations to the Terrestial Environment Held in Halkidiki, Greece, 1982

by N.S. Margaris (Editor), Margarita Arianoutsou-Faraggitaki (Editor), W.C. Oechel (Editor)

Overview

The present volume includes papers presented in the International Symposium on Adaptations to Terrestrial Environment, held in Halkidiki, Greece from September 26th to October 2nd, 1982, as well as some invited ones from well known scientists working in the same field. It seemed rather optimistic to deal just in the same volume with such a variety of organisms (micro­ organisms to higher plants) on the basis of the1r adaptive strategies for survival on land. It would appear as the entire ecology ought to be included. It was a challenge for us. We undertook this challenge hoping that the output would not be unsuccessful. The Editors allowed the authors of the accepted papers great leeway in terms of thoroughness of their contributions. The quality of the papers included is high while some of them had to be rewritten in order to include valuable comments developed during the Symposium discussions. We have tried to include many papers from Eastern Europe since generally, because of the language problem, they do not get widely known. The Editors wish to express their thankfulness to UNESCO for sponsoring the Symposium in the frame of Man and Biosphere Program; to all scientists who have contributed papers in this volume; and to Mrs. A. Karamanli-Vlahopoulou for her patient and skillful typing of part of the manuscript.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789400965805
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/09/2011
Series:	Tasks for Vegetation Science , #13
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

One: Systems’ Adaptations.- 1. Convergence and non-convergence of Mediterranean type communities in the old and the new world.- 2. Functioning of tundra vegetation in relation to life forms.- 3. Adaptive plant evolution in the alpine environment of the Greek mountains.- 4. History and genetics of tolerance to the natural phyto-toxic media of western Balkans.- 5. Morpho-anatomical syndromes in phyto-indicators of extreme stormy habitats in the northeastern Adriatic.- 6. Leaf form of the woody plants of Indiana as related to environment.- 7. Fire adaptation strategies of plants in the French Mediterranean area.- Two: Adaptations to Water (Availability or Deficiency).- 8. Root sheaths as an adaptation to soil moisture stress in arid zone grasses.- 9. Osmotic and turgor relations in selected chaparral shrub species.- 10. Adaptations of the photosynthetic pigment system to ecological conditions with respect to water in different terrestrial plants.- 11. Ways of detecting adaptive responses of cultivated plants to drought. An agronomic approach.- 12. Structural aspects of the adaptation of some blue-green algae and diatoms to desiccation.- Three: Adaptations to Temperature.- 13. Species-specific responses to temperature in acid metabolism and gas exchange performance of Macaronesian sempervivoideae.- 14. Soil temperature effects on carbon exchange in Taiga trees.- 15. Influence of the environment on cold hardening and winter survival of forage and cereal species with consideration of proline as a metabolic marker of hardening.- Four: Adaptations to Light.- 16. Adaptations of understorey species to exist in temperate deciduous forests.- 17. Growth of Dactylis glomerata L. and Bromus erectus Huds. in natural habitats and along light and water gradients.- 18. A model of growthkinetic theory of Anacystis nidulans in light-limited culture.- Five: Nutrition.- 19. Fe, Co, Zn, Br, Cs, Se, Cr, Sb and Sc content and growth of soybean nodules as affected by nutrient deficiency.- 20. Effect of Molybdenum and Cobalt on the nitrogen-fixing activity of Rhizobium japonicum and soybean yield.- Six: Interactions.- 21. The measurement of adaptation in cultivated plants.- 22. Branching patterns in columnar cacti.- 23. Edaphic restriction of Cupressus forbesii (Tecate Cypress) in Southern California, U.S.A. — A hypothesis.- 24. Ultrastructure and cyhemistry of retinacles and pollinia from Mediterranean Orchids— their relation with pollination.- 25. Observations on the dynamics of three populations of oak seedlings (Quercus sessiliflora Ehrl.) in the Fontainebleau forest.- 26. Effect of plant volatiles on rhizospheric and phyllospheric mycoflora.- 27. Moss growth and development is facilitated by natural bacterial flora.- 28. Comparative ability of Rhizobium phaseoli strains.- Seven: Pollution.- 29. The importance of forests in the region of the Pardubice industrial agglomeration.- 30. Modification of pollutant effects by ecological factors.- 31. Tree barks and pollutant zoning.- 32. Heavy metal uptake by radish in relation to soil fertility and chemical extractability of metals.- 33. Adaptation of soil microorganisms to decomposition of some herbicides.- 34. Determination of Zinc, Iron and Aluminum in halophytic species of the river Sado estuary-Portugal, by atomic absorption spectrometry.