"Plant Ecophysiology" deals - as its name suggests (from the words "oikos" and "physiology") - with the interaction of plant functions with the environment and their response to environmental stress, through adaptive mechanisms.

The book emphasizes:
1) the natural environment of plants,
2) the ecophysiology of seeds,
3) the ecophysiology of inorganic nutrition,
4) the ecophysiology of environmental stress,
5) the ecophysiological role of secondary metabolites in plants, and
6) the ecophysiology of threatened plants.

The renewed interest in plants and biodiversity issues in a changing world reveals the relationship of plant ecophysiology to the preservation of plant life, under the threat of climate change and human activity. In this network of scientific study and information, plant ecophysiology plays a particularly important role.