Structure-Function Relations of Warm Desert Plants

1 Plant Life Forms of Warm Desert Climates.- 1.1 Distribution and Climates of Warm Deserts.- 1.2 Physiological Problems for Plants.- 1.3 Conceptual Models for Desert Plant Adaptations.- 1.4 Plants of Warm Deserts.- 2 Functional Morphology of Nonsucculent Leaves.- 2.1 Energy Balance of a Leaf.- 2.2 Leaf Size.- 2.3 Encelia as a Model System.- 2.4 Structural Nature of Surface Reflectance.- 2.5 Leaf Orientation and Display.- 2.6 Leaf Rolling and Revolute Margins.- 3 Functional Morphology of Nonsucculent Leaves.- 3.1 Gas Diffusion Pathway.- 3.2 Physiological Anatomy of Nonsucculent Leaves of Desert Plants.- 3.3 Phreatophytes.- 3.4 Herbaceous Species.- 3.5 Fruit Photosynthesis.- 4 Photosynthetic Stems of Nonsucculent Plants.- 4.1 Functional Morphology.- 4.2 Anatomy of Woody Plants.- 4.3 Special Cases.- 5 Succulent Photosynthetic Organs.- 5.1 General Properties of Succulent Photosynthetic Organs.- 5.2 Taxon-Specific Adaptations.- 5.3 Fleshy Leaves.- 6 Special Topics in Water Relations.- 6.1 Xerohalophytes.- 6.2 Water Uptake.- 6.3 Vascular Tissues.- 7 Origins of Desert Structural Adaptations.- 7.1 Where Desert Adaptations Evolved.- 7.2 Warm Desert Versus Semiarid Habitats.- 7.3 Future Directions of Structure-Function Research.- References.- Taxonomic Index.