Plant Sensing and Communication [Audiobook] download free by Richard Karban
- Listen audiobook: Plant Sensing and Communication
- Author: Richard Karban
- Release date: 2015/9/13
- Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Science and Geography
- ISBN: 9780226264707
- Rating: 8.49 of 10
- Votes: 446
- Review by: Lyle Finn
- Review rating: 8.68 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/15
- Duration: 2H59M24S in 256 kbps (48 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-13
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG4, AC3, MP3, FLAC, ATRAC, MPC, WAV (compression TAR.BZ, RAR, TZ, ZIP, XZ, CPIO)
- Total pages original book: 240
- Includes a PDF summary of 20 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M12S (4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The news that a flowering weed-mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)-can sense the particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical defenses in response led to headlines announcing the discovery of the first 'hearing' plant. As plants lack central nervous systems (and, indeed, ears), the mechanisms behind this 'hearing' are unquestionably very different from those of our own acoustic sense, but the misleading headlines point to an overlooked truth: plants do in fact perceive environmental cues and respond rapidly to them by changing their chemical, morphological, and behavioral traits. In Plant Sensing and Communication, Richard Karban provides the first comprehensive overview of what is known about how plants perceive their environments, communicate those perceptions, and learn. Facing many of the same challenges as animals, plants have developed many similar capabilities: they sense light, chemicals, mechanical stimulation, temperature, electricity, and sound. Moreover, prior experiences have lasting impacts on sensitivity and response to cues; plants, in essence, have memory.Nor are their senses limited to the processes of an individual plant: plants eavesdrop on the cues and behaviors of neighbors and - for example, through flowers and fruits - exchange information with other types of organisms. Far from inanimate organisms limited by their stationery existence, plants, this book makes unquestionably clear, are in constant and lively discourse.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Botany & Plant Sciences, Ecological Science, The Biosphere
- Download servers: Mediafire, CmisSync, Hotfile, Torrent, Uploaded. Compressed in TAR.BZ, RAR, TZ, ZIP, XZ, CPIO
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 35.65 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x17.78mm
- Weight: 317.51g
- Printed by: University of Chicago Press
- Published in: Chicago, IL, United States
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