Exploitation of Environmental Heterogeneity by Plants : Ecophysiological Processes Above- and Belowground Book

	Contributors
	Preface
1	The Role of Plasticity in Exploiting Environmental Heterogeneity
2	The Physical Nature of Solar Radiation in Heterogeneous Canopies: Spatial and Temporal Attributes
3	Light Gaps: Sensing the Light Opportunities in Highly Dynamic Canopy Environments
4	Canopy Gaps: Competitive Light Interception and Economic Space Filling - A Matter of Whole-Plant Allocation
5	Photosynthetic Acclimation to Changing Light Environments: Scaling from the Leaf to the Whole Plant
6	Photosynthetic Utilization of Sunflecks: A Temporally Patchy Resource on a Time Scale of Seconds to Minutes
7	Signals for Seeds to Sense and Respond to Gaps
8	Assessing the Heterogeneity of Belowground Resources: Quantifying Pattern and Scale
9	Causes of Soil Nutrient Heterogeneity at Different Scales
10	Root-Soil Responses to Water Pulses in Dry Environments
11	Architecture and Biomass Allocation as Components of the Plastic Response of Root Systems to Soil Heterogeneity
12	Exploiting Nutrients in Fertile Soil Microsites
13	Coping with Environmental Heterogeneity: The Physiological Ecology of Tree Seedling Regeneration across the Gap-Understory Continuum
14	Spatial Heterogeneity at Small Scales and How Plants Respond to It
	Index