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About this book
This volume provides a synthesis of recent work on evolutionary aspects of metal tolerance in plants. It presents contributions from scientists with a wide diversity of expertise. It covers the evolution of heavy metal tolerance in groups of plants, fungi, and protists. The book discusses the physiological, genetic and molecular aspects of metal tolerances. It deals with the evolution of populations in metal-contaminated environments. Several chapters include tolerance in animals in order to place the rest of the book on plants in proper perspective. This publication is an exciting addition for scientists with both applied and basic interest in metal toxicity and tolerance. It is of importance to those in vegetation ecology, land reclamation, agronomy, physiology, population ecology, ecological genetics, evolutionary biology and molecular biology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Editor
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- PART 1. ECOLOGY OF METAL-CONTAMINATED HABITATS
- Chapter 1 Characteristics of Metals in Biological Systems
- Chapter 2 Movement of Metals through Soils and Ecosystems
- Chapter 3 Mine Vegetation in Europe
- Chapter 4 Vegetation of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soils in North America
- Chapter 5 Metal-Enriched Sites of South Central Africa
- Chapter 6 Atmospheric Sources of Metal Pollution and Effects on Vegetation
- PART 2. MACROEVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS OF METAL TOLERANCE
- Chapter 7 Metal Tolerance in Fungi
- Chapter 8 Metal Tolerance in Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Algae
- Chapter 9 Metal Tolerance in Lichens
- Chapter 10 Metal Tolerance in Bryophytes
- PART 3. PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF TOLERANCE IN HIGHER PLANTS
- Chapter 11 Ecophysiology of Metal Uptake by Tolerant Plants
- Chapter 12 Mechanisms of Metal Tolerance in Higher Plants
- Chapter 13 Metal-Binding Polypeptides in Plants
- Chapter 14 Animal Metallothioneins
- PART 4. MICROEVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS OF METAL TOLERANCE
- Chapter 15 The Genetics of Metal Tolerance in Natural Populations
- Chapter 16 Genetics of Tolerance in Agronomic Plants
- Chapter 17 Colonization and Establishment of Plants in Contaminated Environments
- Chapter 18 Microevolutionary Processes on Contaminated Deposits
- Chapter 19 Endemic Metallophytes: Their Taxonomic, Genetic, and Evolutionary Attributes
- Chapter 20 Adaptation to Metals in Animals
- Chapter 21 The Essential Qualities
- Index