Looking for literature about plants xenobiology

[habilet]

Seems like an oddity, but from all I have read about xenobiology and the such, there is a extreme focus in either the initial biochemical structures or the way alien civilizations might form and work, but the middle process seems lacking in description and is mainly about the fauna, and it's morphology or fisiology.

Meanwhile information about how primary producers might form and sustain the biosphere is something that as far as I have seen, more rare to the point where I haven't seen many descriptions of the flora landscape.

So are there any books, papers or simple articles about that precise subject that I might have missed?

[stevebowers]

I like the descriptions of the biosphere in the worldbuilding project Epona, created by a large number of people, including some who have been members of OA in the past
http://worldbuilders.info/epona-act-i/act-i-flora/
and project Furaha (Gert van Dijk was a member here for a while, and we exchanged tips)
http://members.casema.nl/gertvandijk/pla...hedral.htm
http://members.casema.nl/gertvandijk/plants/gothic.htm

Also Project Nereus
https://sites.google.com/site/projectner...nereophyta

Robert Freitas has a book online about xenology, which he describes as the study of alien life in general; here it is
http://www.xenology.info/Xeno.htm

I often visit various speculative biology websites, and get tips about alternative paths that evolution might have taken. Here's one.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/conceptual_evolution/

DeviantArt is a rich source of inspiration for plant biology too.
Some examples here
https://www.google.com/search?q=alien+pl...00&bih=836

[TerryLewis]

Basically, all the materials I've come across too have been mentioned by the admin. I strongly recommend Robert Freitas' book as well. Here're some more resources that I found quite informative. One of them is Speculative Evolution. It's a place where people collected materials on xenobiology over the past decade. Worldbuilding section on Stackexchange has a lot of trash, but I pop up there from time to time.

[Drashner1]

Basically, all the materials I've come across too have been mentioned by the admin. I strongly recommend Robert Freitas' book as well. Here're some more resources that I found quite informative.  One of them is Speculative Evolution. It's a place where people collected materials on xenobiology over the past decade. Worldbuilding section on Stackexchange has a lot of trash, but I pop up there from time to time.

Hiya - Welcome to OA!

I'm not sure if you were trying to include a link to the Speculative Evolution resource, but if so it looks like the forum didn't pick it up for some reason. If you could repost it, that would be great

Freitas' book keeps popping up when these sorts of discussions (As well as megastructure discussions) come up. We should probably add the link to it to our Links and Extras page if it's not there already and/or add it to the Additional Information section of the relevant EG pages.

I've got some other editing stuff I'm going to try to get done this weekend. Will try to remember this as part of that.

Todd

[TerryLewis]

Basically, all the materials I've come across too have been mentioned by the admin. I strongly recommend Robert Freitas' book as well. Here're some more resources that I found quite informative.  One of them is Speculative Evolution. It's a place where people collected materials on xenobiology over the past decade. Worldbuilding section on Stackexchange has a lot of trash, but I pop up there from time to time.

Hi Todd,

Here're the links I was about to mention:
Speculative Evolution wiki and speculative logic samples - http://speculativeevolution.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Worldbuilding section on Stackexchange - https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/
Perhaps, those could be helpful for the OP.