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Alice in the land of plants : biology of plants and their importance for planet earth / Yiannis Manetas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manetas, Giannēs, 1947-
- Standardized Title:
- Ti tha evlepe hē Alikē stē chōra tōn phytōn. English
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- Subjects (All):
- Plants--Popular works.
- Plants.
- Botany--Popular works.
- Botany.
- Plant ecology.
- Plant ecology--Popular works.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [English edition].
- Other Title:
- Biology of plants and their importance for planet earth
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Basic plant organization : how it differs from that of animals
- Why trees are almost immortal and other related issues
- Short evolutionary history of plants
- Sex in nonmotile organisms
- The world through the eyes of plants
- The defense of a stationary organism
- Symbioses galore
- Deviations from the basic biological type
- Are plants intelligent organisms after all?
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Originally published in Greek: Hērakleio : Panepistēmiakes Ekdoseis Krētēs [i.e. Crete University Press], 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-367) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783642283376
- 3642283373
- OCLC:
- 785073002
- Publisher Number:
- 99949527679
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