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Alpine Treelines Functional Ecology of the Global High Elevation Tree Limits /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basel :
Springer Basel : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- High elevation treelines
- Definitions and conventions
- Treeline patterns
- Treeline climate
- Global mountain statistics based on treeline elevation
- Structure and stature of treeline trees
- Growth and development
- Evolutionary adjustments to life at treeline
- Reproduction, early life stages and tree demography
- Freezing and other forms of stress
- Water, nutrient and carbon relations
- Treeline formation - currently, in the past and in the future
- References
- Taxonomic index
- Subject index.