Название: Wonders of the Plant Kingdom: A Microcosm Revealed
Автор: Wolfgang Stuppy, Rob Kesseler, Madeline Harley
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022621592X
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 160
Размер: 36,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Compared to the obvious complexity of animals, plants at a glance seem relatively simple in form. But that simplicity is deceptive: the plants around us are the result of millennia of incredible evolutionary adaptations that have allowed them to survive, and thrive, under wildly changing conditions and in remarkably specific ecological niches. Much of this innovation, however, is invisible to the naked eye.