BookFritz H. Schweingruber, Andrea Kučerová, Lubomír Adamec, Jiří Doležal.
Summary: This book presents light microscopic anatomical images of aquatic and wetland plant stem. It features double-stained cross- and longitudinal sections of almost 400 species of vascular plants from the lowland to the alpine zone in Central Europe, including plants from lakes, ponds, rivers, bogs, fens, wet meadows, saline meadows, tall herb associations and alpine snow beds. The microscopic photographs at various magnifications are supplemented with detailed anatomical descriptions. For each species it provides a photo of the whole plant, a short morphological and ecological description as well as indications about its world- and Central European distribution. The book includes a hydrobotanical and an anatomical section. The hydrobotanical section describes the ecological classification of aquatic and wetland plants and explains major ecophysiological processes e.g., photosynthesis, mineral nutrition, gas exchange, adaptations to soil anoxia, turion formation and ecology. The anatomical section highlights the variety of structures and anatomical features of vascular plants in all wet environments.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
General introduction
Why an atlas of aquatic and wetland plants?
The purpose of the book
Hydrobotanical terminology of aquatic and wetland vascular plants and wetlands: definitions, synonyms, specifications, classific
1. Submerged plants:
2. Rooted floating-leaved plants:
3. Surface-floating plants:
4. Emergent plants:
terrestrial wetland plants.
Criteria for selection of plant species included and their countries
Aquatic and wetland vegetation
basic types and description
Oligotrophic shallow lakes 7. Particulars of mineral nutritionin submerged plants
8. Adaptations of emergent and rootedfloating-leaved plants to soil anoxiaand waterlogging
9. Ecophysiology of aquatic plants' turions
Chapter 2: Preparation methods
Chapter 3: Definition of anatomical features
Definition of petiole features of Pteridophytes
Outline of petioles and arrangement of vascular bundles (stele)
Construction of vascular bundles
Boundary between the cortex and vascular bundles
endodermis
Intercellulars in the cortex, aerenchyma
Definition of shootand rhizome features of Dicotyledons Culm and rhizome type
Distribution of vascular bundles
Types of vascular bundles
Sclerenchyma sheath around vascular bundles
Epidermis
Endodermis
Sclerenchymatic belt at the periphery of the culm
Girders (axial oriented strings consisting of thick-walled fibers)
Aerenchyma in the cortex
Cell contents
Anatomical descriptions of Pteridophytes
Chapter 4: Dryopteris cristata (L.) A. Gray
Distribution and ecology
Anatomy of the petiole
Chapter 5: Equisetum fluviatile L.
Distribution and ecology
Anatomy of the rhizome
Equisetum hyemale L. Large cortex, small central cylinders
Endodermis-like layer of cells between the cortex and the central cylinder
Types of vascular bundles
Fibers absent in the xylem
Vessels absent in the xylem
Vessel-walls not lignified
Cortex consisting of large parenchyma cells
Small to large irregularly formed intercellulars
Intercellulars (aerenchyma) circular and honeycomb
Intercellulars (aerenchyma) large, radially extended
Air conducting canals
Crystals
Definition of culm and rhizome features of Monocotyledons
Outline
Center and central cylinder Ponds and fishponds
Alluvial pools and oxbows
Reedbeds
Alder and willow carrs
Stream vegetation
Springs
Tall-herb vegetation
Fens and peaty meadows
Bogs and wooded peatbogs
Alpine snow beds
Drained water body bottoms
Ecophysiological characteristics of aquatic and wetland vascular plants
1. Submerged aquatic plants
2. Rooted floating-leaved plants
3. Surface-floating plants
4. Emergent plants
5. Adaptations of photosynthesisin submerged plants
6. Particulars of gas exchangein submerged plants