*Biology: Biology Research Tools

In this book, plant biology is considered from the perspective of plants and their surrounding environment, including both biotic and abiotic interactions.The intended audience is undergraduate students in the middle or final phases of their programs of study. Topics covered include:

Plant–Environment Interactions Across Multiple Scales, Plant Biodiversity and Population Dynamics, Assembly of Plant Communities, Plant Pollination and Dispersal, Plant Phenotypic Expression in Variable Environments, Evolutionary Ecology of Chemically Mediated Plant-Insect Interactions, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Patterns and Controls of Terrestrial Primary Production in a Changing World, Ecology of Tropical Rain Forests, Ecology of Temperate Forests, Plants in Deserts, Plants in Alpine Environments, Plants in Arctic Environments, Grassland Ecology, Coastal Wetland Ecology and Challenges for Environmental Management, Near-Coastal Seagrass Ecosystems, Ecology of Marine Phytoplankton, Plants in Changing Environmental Conditions of the Anthropocene, Plant Influences on Atmospheric Chemistry, Biofuel Development from Cellulosic Sources, and Plant Ecology and Sustainability Science.

The volume reveals, in chronological order, 150 years of evolutionary biology. Each selection is preceded by a short essay that explains its significance.
The papers represent hallmark publications by seminal thinkers in the field such as Charlesworth, Dobzhansky, Ehrlich and Raven, Gould and Lewontin, Hamilton, Hardy, Hillis, Margulis, Maynard Smith, Mayr, MacArthur and Wilson, McClintock, Simpson, Trivers, Watson and Crick, West-Eberhard, and Wright.
Subjects include natural selection, adaptation, and complex design, as well as mutation, chromosome speciation, and pseudogenes.

In this book, plant biology is considered from the perspective of plants and their surrounding environment, including both biotic and abiotic interactions. The intended audience is undergraduate students in the middle or final phases of their programs of study. Topics include:
DNA Repair and Recombination in Plants, Small RNAs in Plants, Plant Translational Machinery, Chloroplast Signaling in Plants, ER Stress Signaling in Plants, Auxin Signaling in Plants, Cytokinin Signaling in Plants, Brassinosteroid Signaling in Plants, COP9 Signalosome Network, Plant Circadian Network and the Drought Stress Signaling Network.