Cottonwood and the river of time on trees, evolution, and society /
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
c2009.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 1: The tree and the river
- The tree
- The river
- Regeneration
- Water and nutrient relations
- Perpetuate and proliferate!
- 2: Variation and variability
- Clones
- Why sex?
- Password?
- Natural hybridization
- 3: From species to population to genes
- Common gardens
- Transplanted trees
- Getting closer to the genes
- Migrant trees
- Adaptation and its limits
- 4: Trees and society
- Changing rivers--changing landscapes
- The dawn of agriculture
- The farmer's trees
- From farmers' trees to tree farms
- Poplar--a model tree
- Tree genomics and beyond
- Between old growth and plantations
- The essence of trees
- Outlook.