Alpine Plant Life
Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems
(Sprache: Englisch)
Generations of plant scientists have been fascinated by alpine plant life - with the exposure of organisms to dramatic climatic gradients over a very short distance. This comprehensive text treats a wide range of topics: alpine climate and soils, plant...
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Generations of plant scientists have been fascinated by alpine plant life - with the exposure of organisms to dramatic climatic gradients over a very short distance. This comprehensive text treats a wide range of topics: alpine climate and soils, plant distribution and the treeline phenomenon, physiological ecology of water-, nutritional- and carbon relations of alpine plants, plant stress and plant development, biomass production, and aspects of human impacts on alpine vegetation. Geographically the book covers all parts of the world including the tropics.This second edition of Alpine Plant Life gives new references, new diagrams, and extensively revised chapters.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Alpine Plant Life “
- Plant ecology at high elevations- The alpine life zone
- Alpine climate
- The climate plants experience
- Life under snow: protection and limitation
- Alpine soils
- Alpine treelines
- Climatic stress
- Water relations
- Mineral nutrition
- Uptake and loss of carbon
- Carbon investments
- Growth dynamics and phenology
- Cell division and tissue formation
- Plant biomass production
- Plant reproduction
- Global change at high elevation
- References (with chapter annotation)
- Index
- Color Plates.
Autoren-Porträt von Christian Körner
Christian Körner was born 1949 in Salzburg, Austria. He studied in Innsbruck, where he received his Ph.D. and lectured until his appointment as Professor of Botany at the University of Basel (Switzerland) in 1989.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Christian Körner
- 2003, 2nd ed. 2003, 349 Seiten, Maße: 19,8 x 24,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer
- ISBN-10: 3540003479
- ISBN-13: 9783540003472
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.07.2003
Sprache:
Englisch
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