Combining chapters on the latest thinking with excellent overviews of
background material, this well-edited text provides a fine introduction to the
evolution of strategies by plants. Treating plants as dynamic systems, topics
include game-theory analysis of seed numbers, the evolution
of symbiotic associations. A
valuable, if eurocentric, book. Plant Life Histories: ecology, phylogeny and
evolution is edited by Jonathan Silvertown, Miguel Franco and John Harper,
published by Cambridge University Press, £19.95/$29.95, ISBN
0521574951.
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