Alpine Plant Life
Alpine Plant Life
Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems
Inhalt
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.
Bibliografische Angaben
Juli 2003, 349 Seiten, Englisch
Springer Nature EN
978-3-540-00347-2