Vascular Plants as Epiphytes: Evolution and Ecophysiology

by Ulrich E. Lüttge

In his lectures my teacher Karl M?gdefrau used to say that one only becomes a real plant scientist when one enters a tropical rainforest. For me this initiation occurred in 1969 in northern Queensland, Australia, and was associated with the greatest excitement. On another level it received confirmation when I set out in 1983 together with some friends and colleagues for the first detailed ecophysiological studies of epiphytes in the wet tropics in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642744672
• ISBN13: 9783642744679
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"