NIKLAS, Karl Joseph (1948 – )
1948 –
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1992 CE
#9186
Plant biomechanics: An engineering approach to plant form and function.
The first comprehensive treatment of plant biomechanics. "Niklas analyzes plant form and provides a far deeper understanding of how form is a response to basic physical laws. He examines the ways in which these laws c…
1994 CE
#9187
Plant allometry: The scaling of form and process.
The first book to apply allometry— one definition of which is the study of the growth rate of an organism's parts in relation to the whole — to studies of the evolution, morphology, physiology, and reprodu…