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| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| The study of diversity | |
| The names of organisms | p. 1 |
| Studying plant structure | p. 5 |
| Characters | p. 7 |
| The plant body: plant behaviour | |
| Plants are different from animals | p. 24 |
| The environment of plants | p. 33 |
| Plant growth and behaviour | p. 36 |
| The first land plants: patterns of diversity | |
| Plant fossils | p. 55 |
| Algal ancestors | p. 58 |
| An early community of land plants | p. 59 |
| Diversifying on land | p. 63 |
| The axis and its appendages | p. 73 |
| The age of gymnosperms: extinct seed plant groups | p. 78 |
| Sex and dispersal: gametes, spores, seeds and fruits | |
| The alternation of generations | p. 88 |
| The sporophyte | p. 90 |
| The gametophyte | p. 99 |
| Heterothallism | p. 107 |
| Seed plants: the ovule | p. 110 |
| A classification of land plants | p. 130 |
| Flowers: evolution and diversity | |
| The evolution of angiosperms | p. 133 |
| Cross pollination | p. 138 |
| Breeding systems | p. 141 |
| Evolutionary trends | p. 148 |
| A review of angiosperms | p. 157 |
| Trees: adaptations in woods and forests | |
| Wood anatomy | p. 187 |
| Tree architecture | p. 197 |
| Leaves | p. 205 |
| Bark and periderm | p. 208 |
| Epiphytes | p. 210 |
| Adaptive growth forms: the limiting physical environment | |
| Water relations | p. 223 |
| The bryophytes; non-vascular plants | p. 227 |
| Gas relations | p. 234 |
| Aquatic plants | p. 236 |
| Nutrient relations | p. 242 |
| Surviving environmental extremes | p. 255 |
| Life forms | p. 257 |
| Competition, herbivory and dispersal: the limiting biotic environment | |
| Reproductive strategies | p. 263 |
| Herbivory | p. 267 |
| Dispersal | p. 279 |
| Establishment | p. 287 |
| A behavioural classification of plants | p. 287 |
| Cultivated plants: conclusion | |
| Exploited diversity, the uses of plants | p. 291 |
| The genetic history of crops | p. 293 |
| Future prospects | p. 294 |
| Conclusion | p. 294 |
| Glossary | p. 297 |
| References | p. 316 |
| Index | p. 327 |
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