Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems

<div> <div> <div>This book is a completely revised, substantially extended treatment of the physical and biological factors that drive life in high mountains. The book covers the characteristics of alpine plant life, alpine climate and soils, life under snow, stress tolerance, treeline ecology, plant water, carbon, and nutrient relations, plant growth and productivity, developmental processes, and two largely novel chapters on alpine plant reproduction and global change biology. The book explains why the topography driven exposure of plants to dramatic micro-climatic gradients over very short distances causes alpine biodiversity to be particularly robust against climatic change. Geographically, this book draws on examples from all parts of the world, including the tropics. This book is complemented with novel evidence and insight that emerged over the last 17 years of alpine plant research. The number of figures - mostly in color - nearly doubled, with many photographs providing a vivid impression of alpine plant life worldwide. </div> <div> </div> <div>Christian Körner was born in 1949 in Austria, received his academic education at the University of Innsbruck, and was full professor of Botany at the University of Basel from 1989 to 2014. As emeritus Professor he is continuing alpine plant research in the Swiss Alps.</div> </div> </div>

Science & Math

Körner, Christian

Biological Sciences

Springer

Alpine treelines mark the low-temperature limit of tree growth and occur in mountains world-wide. Presenting a companion to his book Alpine Plant Life, Christian Körner provides a global synthesis of the treeline phenomenon from sub-arctic to equatorial latitudes and a functional explanation based on the biology of trees. The comprehensive text approaches the subject in a multi-disciplinary way by exploring forest patterns at the edge of tree life, tree morphology, anatomy, climatology and, based on this, modelling treeline position, describing reproduction and population processes, development, phenology, evolutionary aspects, as well as summarizing evidence on the physiology of carbon, water and nutrient relations, and stress physiology. It closes with an account on treelines in the past (palaeo-ecology) and a section on global change effects on treelines, now and in the future. With more than 100 illustrations, many of them in colour, the book shows alpine treelines from around the globe and offers a wealth of scientific information in the form of diagrams and tables.

Alpine Treelines: Functional Ecology of the Global High Elevation Tree Limits

Korner's dissertation provides a detailed analysis of the documentary, literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence for the reign of Philip the Arab who governed the Roman Empire between 244 and 249 AD in the manner, so Korner argues, of the Antonine and Severan emperors. Sections examine Philip's method of government, his relationship with the Senate, army and people, his eastern city of Philippopolis, Christianity, rebellion, his family and legacy, all set within the context of the 3rd-century crisis in the Roman Empire. Heavily annotated German text.

Philippus Arabs: Ein Soldatenkaiser in der Tradition des antoninisch-severischen Prinzipats (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 61) (German Edition)

History

Ancient Civilizations

de Gruyter

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.

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, aspects of reproductive biology, and human impacts on alpine vegetation. Geographically the book covers all parts of the world including the tropics.

Springer, Verlag

Generations of plant scientists have been fascinated by alpine plant lifean ecosystem that experiences dramatic climatic gradients over a very short distance. This comprehensive book examines a wide range of topics including alpine climate and soils, plant distribution and the treeline phenomenon, plant stress and development, global change at high elevation, and the human impact on alpine vegetation. Geographically, the book covers all parts of the world including the tropics.

This famous book on botany was published for the first time in 1894 by Eduard Strasburger and his co-workers. The present edition is based on a translation of the 36th edition of the German "Strasburger" and contains additional contributions by renowned experts in the field. The “Strasburger” comprises a highly appealing and holistic approach to the structure, the systematics and evolution, the functioning, and ecology of plants. The book covers 14 chapters bundled into four main sections: (i) Molecular and morphological structure of plants and cells (ii) Physiology and metabolism (iii) Evolution and systematics of plants (iv) Ecology

Strasburger's Plant Sciences: Including Prokaryotes and Fungi

Kadereit, Joachim W.

Sonnewald, Uwe

Bresinsky, Andreas

Neuhaus, Gunther

Seit 120 Jahren liegt die Stärke des&nbsp;STRASBURGERs&nbsp;in der ausgewogenen Darstellung aller Teilgebiete der Pflanzenwissenschaften.&nbsp;In der vorliegenden&nbsp;38. Auflage&nbsp;sind besonders die Teile Struktur und Entwicklung stark überarbeitet worden.&nbsp; *&nbsp;Der Teil&nbsp;Struktur&nbsp;beschreibt den pflanzlichen Aufbau ausgehend von der Ebene der Zelle über die Gewebe bis hin zur Ebene der Organe. Bei der Neufassung dieser Kapitel war es ein besonderes Anliegen, Struktur als Ausdruck von Funktion sichtbar zu machen. Neben einer Beschreibung der Formen wurde versucht, die Erklärung dieser Formen stärker zu gewichten. Der Teil&nbsp;Genetik&nbsp;wurde neustrukturiert und aktualisiert.&nbsp; * Der Teil&nbsp;Genetik&nbsp;wurde neustrukturiert und aktualisiert. Insbesondere die Bereiche Epigenetik und Gentechnik wurden erweitert. Hier spielen Weiterentwicklungen der Gentechnik zur gezielten Genomveränderung eine Rolle. Die methodischen Hintergründe werden im neuen Abschnitt Genomeditierung beschrieben. <ul> <li>Der ebenfalls neu gestaltete Teil&nbsp;Entwicklung&nbsp;spiegelt die im Teil&nbsp;Strukturbehandelten Ebenen (Zelle, Gewebe, Organ, Organismus) wider, wobei das Werden dieser Ebenen im Mittelpunkt steht. Es werden zentrale Konzepte der Entwicklungsbiologie an Beispielen aus dem Pflanzenreich geschildert. In den anschließenden Kapiteln geht es dann um die Steuerung dieser Vorgänge durch Phytohormone und den Einfluss endogener und exogener regulatorischer Faktoren.</li> </ul> * Im Teil&nbsp;Physiologie&nbsp;werden ausgehend von der Beschreibung grundlegender Transport- und Stoffwechselprozesse die Anpassung des pflanzlichen Stoffwechsels an entwicklungs- und umweltbedingte Veränderungen betrachtet. Die Abschnitte zum Primärstoffwechsel wurden ergänzt und überarbeitet und die übrigen Teile aktualisiert. * Der evolutionäre Prozess, die Phylogenie und Systematik der Pflanzen und anderer photoautotropher Eukaryoten sowie die Geschichte der Vegetation der Erde sind Inhalt des Teils&nbsp;Evolution&nbsp;und&nbsp;Systematik.&nbsp; * Im&nbsp;Ökologie-Teil wird die Pflanze in Beziehung zu den Lebensbedingungen am Wuchsort gesetzt. Pflanzliche Reaktionen auf Klima und Bodenfaktoren, Prozesse in Populationen und Artengemeinschaften sowie die großen Vegetationszonen der Erde werden erklärt. In dieser neu überarbeiteten Auflage wurden einige Abbildungen und Textstellen hinzugefügt sowie die Literatur aktualisiert. Der Tradition dieses einzigartigen Standardwerkes entsprechend soll es Studierenden als vierfarbig bebildertes Lehrbuch und Dozenten aller bio-, umwelt- und agrarwissenschaftlichen Fachrichtungen als verlässliches Nachschlage- und Referenzwerk dienen.

Strasburger - Lehrbuch der Pflanzenwissenschaften (German Edition)

Nick, Peter

Springer Spektrum

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Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems

Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems

Alpine Treelines: Functional Ecology of the Global High Elevation Tree Limits

Philippus Arabs: Ein Soldatenkaiser in der Tradition des antoninisch-severischen Prinzipats (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 61) (German Edition)

Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems

Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems

Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems

Strasburger's Plant Sciences: Including Prokaryotes and Fungi

Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems

Strasburger - Lehrbuch der Pflanzenwissenschaften (German Edition)