Nature as the Laboratory: Darwinian Plant Ecology in the German Empire, 1880–1900

Abstract

Preface Introduction 1. Botany in Germany, 1850-80: the making of a science and a profession 2. Schwendener and Haberlandt: the birth of physiological plant anatomy 3. Overtures to Darwinism 4. Schwendener's circle: botanical 'comrades-in-arms' 5. Physiological anatomy beyond the Reich 6. Beyond Schwendener's circle: Ernst Stahl 7. Schimper and Schenck: from Bonn to Brazil 8. Teleology revisited? natural selection and plant adaptation 9. The colonial connection: imperialism and plant adaptation 10. Toward a science of plant ecology Notes Select bibliography Index.

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