Being alive on land : proceedings of the International Symposium on Adaptations to the Terrestrial Environment, held in Halkidiki, Greece, 1982

The present volume includes papers presented in the International Symposium on Adaptations to Terrestrial Environment, held in Halkidiki, Greece from September 26th to October 2nd, 1982, as well as some invited ones from well known scientists working in the same field. It seemed rather optimistic to deal just in the same volume with such a variety of organisms (micro­ organisms to higher plants) on the basis of the1r adaptive strategies for survival on land. It would appear as the entire ecology ought to be included. It was a challenge for us. We undertook this challenge hoping that the output would not be unsuccessful. The Editors allowed the authors of the accepted papers great leeway in terms of thoroughness of their contributions. The quality of the papers included is high while some of them had to be rewritten in order to include valuable comments developed during the Symposium discussions. We have tried to include many papers from Eastern Europe since generally, because of the language problem, they do not get widely known. The Editors wish to express their thankfulness to UNESCO for sponsoring the Symposium in the frame of Man and Biosphere Program; to all scientists who have contributed papers in this volume; and to Mrs. A. Karamanli-Vlahopoulou for her patient and skillful typing of part of the manuscript. Front Matter....Pages I-IX Introduction....Pages 1-1 Front Matter....Pages 3-3 Convergence and Non-Convergence of Mediterranean Type Communities in the Old and the New World....Pages 5-11 Functioning of Tundra Vegetation in Relation to Life Forms....Pages 13-19 Adaptive Plant Evolution in the Alpine Environment of the Greek Mountains....Pages 21-31 History and Genetics of Tolerance to the Natural Phyto-Toxic Media of Western Balkans....Pages 33-40 Morpho-Anatomical Syndromes in Phyto-Indicators of Extreme Stormy Habitats in the Northeastern Adriatic....Pages 41-49 Leaf Form of the Woody Plants of Indiana as Related to Environment....Pages 51-61 Fire Adaptation Strategies of Plants in the French Mediterranean Area....Pages 63-69 Front Matter....Pages 71-71 Root Sheaths as an Adaptation to Soil Moisture Stress in Arid Zone Grasses....Pages 73-76 Osmotic and Turgor Relations in Selected Chaparral Shrub Species....Pages 77-84 Adaptations of the Photosynthetic Pigment System to Ecological Conditions with Respect to Water in Different Terrestrial Plants....Pages 85-90 Ways of Detecting Adaptive Responses of Cultivated Plants to Drought. An Agronomic Approach....Pages 91-101 Structural Aspects of the Adaptation of Some Blue-Green Algae and Diatoms to Desiccation....Pages 103-114 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 Species-Specific Responses to Temperature in Acid Metabolism and Gas Exchange Performance of Macaronesian Sempervivoideae....Pages 117-126 Soil Temperature Effects on Carbon Exchange in Taiga Trees....Pages 127-136 Influence of the Environment on Cold Hardening and Winter Survival of Forage and Cereal Species with Consideration of Proline as a Metabolic Marker of Hardening....Pages 137-154 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 Adaptations of Understorey Species to Exist in Temperate Deciduous Forests....Pages 157-165 Growth of Dactylis glomerata L. and Bromus erectus Huds. In Natural Habitats and Along Light and Water Gradients....Pages 167-172 A Model of Growth Kinetic Theory of Anacystis Nidulans in Light-Limited Culture....Pages 173-176 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 Fe, Co, Zn, Br, Rb, Cs, Se, Cr, Sb and Sc Content and Growth of Soybean Nodules as Affected by Nutrient Deficiency....Pages 179-186 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 Effect of Molybdenum and Cobalt on the Nitrogen-Fixing Activity of Rhizobium Japonicum and Soybean Yield....Pages 187-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 The Measurement of Adaptation in Cultivated Plants....Pages 193-200 Branching Patterns in Columnar Cacti....Pages 201-236 Edaphic Restriction of Cupressus Forbesii (Tecate Cypress) in Southern California, U.S.A.--A Hypothesis....Pages 237-243 Ultrastructure and Cytochemistry of Retinacles and Pollinia from Mediterranean Orchids · their Relation with Pollination....Pages 245-250 Observations on the Dynamics of Three Populations of Oak Seedlings ( Quercus sessiliflora Ehrl.) in the Fontainebleau Forest....Pages 251-255 Effect of Plant Volatiles on Rhizospheric and Phyllospheric Mycoflora....Pages 257-269 Moss Growth and Development is Facilitated by Natural Bacterial Flora....Pages 271-278 Competitive Ability of Rhizobium phaseoli Strains....Pages 279-281 Front Matter....Pages 283-283 The Importance of Forests in the Region of the Pardubice Industrial Agglomeration....Pages 285-289 Modifications of Pollutant Effects by Ecological Factors....Pages 291-299 Tree Barks and Pollutant Zoning....Pages 301-306 Heavy Metal Uptake by Radish in Relation to Soil Fertility and Chemical Extractability of Metals....Pages 307-312 Adaptation of Soil Microorganisms to Decomposition of Some Herbicides....Pages 313-317 Determination of Zinc, Iron and Aluminium in Halophytic Species of the River Sado Estuary—Portugal, by Atomic Absorption Spectrometry....Pages 319-322