This book focuses on the applications of robust and adaptive control approaches to practical systems. The proposed control systems hold two important features: (1) The system is robust with the variation in plant parameters and disturbances (2) The system adapts to parametric uncertainties even in t...
Population and community dynamics are affected by local landscape disturbances, and the answer of each species to these changes could differentially affect species survival. Natural land cover in the Magdalena River valley, Colombia, has been reduced by almost 70 % and fragmented. There inhabit isol...
Over seven chapters, this book helps readers to integrate knowledge of plant anatomy, physiology, and morphogenesis as well as consider the conditions of the different environments to which plants are exposed. It highlights the importance of knowledge of the anatomy of plant tissues for different ap...
This book focuses on the applications of robust and adaptive control approaches to practical systems. The proposed control systems hold two important features: (1) The system is robust with the variation in plant parameters and disturbances (2) The system adapts to parametric uncertainties even in t...
This chapter examines how the borderline cases pointed out by English naturalists and philosophers in the second half of the seventeenth-century call into doubt the common notion of life as a vegetative power. In the first part of this chapter, I focus on Nehemiah Grew’s notions of life and living b...
The Atlantic Forest is one of the key biodiversity hotspots in the world. Its understory can be dominated by species such as the native bamboo Chusquea ramosissima (tacuarembó), which can be an aggressive gap colonizer and change biotic and abiotic conditions compared to mature forest. A strong asso...
To fuel the research on nectar and nectaries, I propose here an English translation of a seminal article published 140 years ago in the Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, which was one of the former titles of the current Botany Letters. The reference of the original publication is: Bonnier,...
"El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar la utilización del CD multimedial e interactivo, ¿Atlas de Anatomía de Plantas Silvestres y Cultivadas que crecen en Córdoba. 1ra Parte: Histología¿ en las clases de Botánica Morfológica, F.C.A. ¿ U.N.C. ¿ Argentina. Este recurso didáctico fue empleado en clas...
"La tolerancia de las plantas a la sequía está, en parte, relacionada con la resistencia al transporte del agua a través del xilema. El objetivo de este trabajo consistió en determinar las variaciones en la conductividad hidráulica del tallo de la vid por efecto del déficit hídrico en diferentes com...
"Se describen por primera vez la estructura morfo-anatómicay estrategias hídricas de dos orquídeas de las selvas nubladasandinas de Venezuela, Maxillaria miniata y Pleurothallis cardiantha.El estudio se efectuó en una selva nublada poco interveniday en el bosque secundario del Jardín Botánico de laU...