How long does it take to read The Ecology of Plants?
Jessica Gurevitch, Samuel M. Scheiner, Gordon A. Fox
The Ecology of Plants by Jessica Gurevitch, Samuel M. Scheiner, Gordon A. Fox takes about 10 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 31 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 574 pages, about 157,850 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Now in full color, this thoroughly revised and updated Second Edition of The Ecology of Plants incorporates many new illustrations and hundreds of new references. The text covers a range of topics that you might find in a general ecology textbook, but with the focus on the interactions between plants and their environment over a range of scales. Some of the subjects covered are unique to plants, such as photosynthesis and the ecology of plant-soil interactions; other topics, such as resource and mate acquisition, emphasize the distinctive ways plants (in contrast to mobile animals) deal with their environments. The book is unusual in emphasizing the importance of evolutionary and other historical processes for current ecology. Throughout the text, human environmental influences are discussed. While the book is written for an undergraduate college course in plant ecology, the engaging style, thorough coverage of the field, and contemporary perspective make it accessible and useful to others as well, from graduate students in conservation biology to evolutionary biologists and resource managers."--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Plant ecology, Science, Science/Mathematics, Life Sciences - Botany, Botany
