Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems

Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems image
ISBN-10:

3642189695

ISBN-13:

9783642189692

Edition: 2nd ed. 2003. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2003
Released: Jan 01, 2014
Publisher: Springer
Format: Paperback, 360 pages
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Description:

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.












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