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Physiological Ecology of North American Plant Communities

Abstract

The Arctic has received considerable attention from plant physiological ecologists, because the extreme nature of the physical environment suggests dramatic physiological adjustment by organisms that live there. In North America, Dwight Billings and his associates have played a major role in describing the nature of adaptations of arctic organisms to their environment (e. g. Bliss, 1956, 1962a, 1971; Billings and Mooney, 1968; Mooney and Billings, 1961). These and other studies (e. g. Lewis and Callaghan, 1976; Savile, 1972; Warren-Wilson, 1966) suggest that low temperature is a major factor limiting growth and activity of arctic plants but that arctic plants exhibit many adaptations allowing effective metabolism at low temperature.

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