Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain EcosystemsSpringer Science & Business Media, 29 giu 2013 - 343 pagine 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. |
Sommario
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Alpine climate | 21 |
protection and limitation | 46 |
Alpine soils | 72 |
Alpine treelines | 81 |
Climatic stress | 101 |
Water relations | 121 |
Carbon investments | 201 |
Growth dynamics | 221 |
Cell division and tissue formation | 235 |
Plant biomass production 247 | 246 |
Plant reproduction | 259 |
Global change at high elevation | 291 |
References with chapter annotation | 299 |
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Parole e frasi comuni
air temperature alpine climate alpine grassland alpine life zone alpine plants alpine soils alpine species alpine vegetation alpine zone altitude altitudinal arctic arctic-alpine belowground biomass canopy carbon balance Carex curvula Carex firma cell central Alps Chap climate clonal CO₂ compared concentrations cycle Diemer dry matter dwarf shrubs effects elevation fellfield flora flowering forbs fraction freezing germination giant rosettes gradient graminoids grassland growing season growth habitats Hence herbaceous high altitude increase Körner Larcher latitudes leaf area leaves limit Loiseleuria Loiseleuria procumbens low altitude low temperature lowland plants mean montane mountains mycorrhiza nitrogen nutrient Oxyria digyna peak perature period photosynthesis plant species Poa alpina range Ranunculus glacialis rates ratio reduced respiration root seed seedlings slope snow cover snow melt snowbed solar radiation stomatal substrate subtropical Swiss Alps temperate zone thermal tion tissue treeline trees trends tropical tussock UV-B water potential winter µmol