TY - BOOK AU - Stettler,R.F. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Cottonwood and the river of time: on trees, evolution, and society AV - QK495.S16 S74 2009eb U1 - 583/.65 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Seattle PB - University of Washington Press KW - Poplar KW - Adaptation KW - Evolution KW - Genetics KW - Trees KW - Economic aspects KW - Human-plant relationships KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1: The tree and the river -- The tree -- The river -- Regeneration -- Water and nutrient relations -- Perpetuate and proliferate! -- 2: Variation and variability -- Clones -- Why sex? -- Password? -- Natural hybridization -- 3: From species to population to genes -- Common gardens -- Transplanted trees -- Getting closer to the genes -- Migrant trees -- Adaptation and its limits -- 4: Trees and society -- Changing rivers--changing landscapes -- The dawn of agriculture -- The farmer's trees -- From farmers' trees to tree farms -- Poplar--a model tree -- Tree genomics and beyond -- Between old growth and plantations -- The essence of trees -- Outlook; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2012; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10521819 ER -