Physiological Plant Ecology : The 39th Symposium of the British Ecological Society, Held at the University of York, 7-9 September 1998 Book

	List of Contributors
	History of the British Ecological Society
	Preface
1	Compromising efficiency: the molecular ecology of light-resource utilization in plants	1
2	Acquisition, partitioning and loss of carbon	25
3	Resource acquisition by plants: the role of crown architecture	45
4	Plant responses to small perturbations in soil water status	67
5	Evolution and ecology of plant mineral nutrition	91
6	Roots as dynamic systems: the developmental ecology of roots and root systems	115
7	The ecophysiology of mycorrhizal symbioses with special reference to impacts upon plant fitness	133
8	Measuring symbiotic nitrogen fixation: case studies of natural and agricultural ecosystems in a Western Australian setting	153
9	Parasitic plants: physiological and ecological interactions with their hosts	175
10	Herbivory	199
11	SO[subscript 2] pollution: a bygone problem or a continuing hazard?	219
12	Terrestrial ecosystem responses to solar UV-B radiation mediated by vegetation, microbes and abiotic photochemistry	241
13	Understanding the impacts of rising CO[subscript 2]: the contribution of environmental physiology	263
14	Genetic vs. environmental control of ecophysiological processes: some challenges for predicting community responses to global change	283
15	Alpine plants: stressed or adapted?	297
16	Arctic plants: adaptations and environmental change	313
17	Ecophysiology of mangroves: challenges in linking physiological processes with patterns in forest structure	331
18	Water use in arid land ecosystems	347
19	Environmental controls of gas exchange in tropical rain forests	367
20	Comparative plant ecology and the role of phytogenetic information	391
21	Stable isotopes reveal exchanges between soil, plants and the atmosphere	415
22	Issues when scaling from plants to globe	443
	Index	457