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This recommended list of books could be considered the core of a young professional's library on plant ecology. For more on the selection of these books, read my paper here. If your budget is tight, don't forget the many used bargains on line, through sites such as abebooks.com.
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Aber, J.D. and J. M. Melillo. 1991. Terrestrial Ecosystems. Saunders, Philadelphia.
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Archibold, O.W. 1995. Ecology of World Vegetation. Chapman and Hall, London.
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Chapman, S.B. 1976. Methods in Plant Ecology. Blackwell Scientific Publications, London.
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Delcourt, H. R. and P.A. Delcourt. 1991. Quaternary Ecology: A Paleoecological Perspective. Chapman and Hall, London.
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Grime, P. 1979. Plant Strategies and Vegetation Processes. Wiley and Sons, Chichester.
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Harper, J.L. 1977. The Population Biology of Plants. Academic Press, London.
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Keddy, P.A. 2001. Competition (2nd ed.). Kluwer, Dordrecht.
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Larcher, W. 1995. Physiological Plant Ecology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
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Leck, M.A., V.T. Parker and R.L. Simpson (eds). Ecology of Soil Seed Banks. Academic Press, San Diego.
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Leith, H. and R.H. Whittaker (eds.). Primary Productivity of the Biosphere. Springer-Verlag, New York.
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May, R.M. 1976. Theoretical Ecology. Principles and Applications. Blackwell, London.
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Mueller-Dombois, D. and H. Ellenberg. 1974. Aims and Methods of Vegetation Ecology. Wiley and Sons, New York.
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Pickett, S.T.A. and P.S. White. 1985. The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics. Academic Press, Orlando.
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Raven, P.H., R.F. Evert and S.E. Eichorn. 1992. Biology of Plants (5th ed.). Worth Publishers, New York.
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Stewart, W. N. and G. R. Rothwell. 1993. Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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Whittaker, R.H. 1975. Communities and Ecosystems. MacMillan, New York.
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Two technical floras, one local and the other regional, for the area in which you live.
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Two history books, one geological and the other human, for the area in which you live.
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