Cottonwood and the river of time [electronic resource] : on trees, evolution, and society / Reinhard F. Stettler.

By: Stettler, R. F. (Reinhard Friedrich), 1929-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2009Description: xiv, 301 p. : illISBN: 9780295800196 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Poplar -- Adaptation | Poplar -- Evolution | Poplar -- Genetics | Trees -- Evolution | Trees -- Economic aspects | Human-plant relationshipsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 583/.65 LOC classification: QK495.S16 | S74 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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