Harper, L. John. Population Biology of Plants.
Pub. Academic Press. 1981 pp.xxiv, 892 with text figs, graphs and tables. Vg. in card covers. Scarce.
The author discusses the processes that determine the number of plants - and the number of plant parts - by describing the separate stages in a general model of population behaviour and analyses the ways the individual plants interfere with each other’s growth.
£80.00 [ref: 34409]

Sutton, S.L. et al. (Eds.). Tropical Rain Forest: Ecology and Management. Special publications series of the British Ecological Society, Number 2.
Pub. Blackwell. 1983 pp. 498 with figs. throughout. VG. in vg. dw.
Aimed at those interested in tropical forest science, this book is divided into the main areas of ‘vegetation and floristics’, ‘animals, mainly insects’, ‘the maintenance of biodiversity’, ‘plant-animal interactions’, ‘decomposition and nutrient cycling’, ‘decomposition and nutrient cycling’, ‘resource management’, ‘biological considerations’, ‘pantropical monitoring’, ‘regional reports’ and ‘the global concern’.
£30.00 [ref: 35611]