Canada's vegetation : a world perspective /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott, Geoffrey A. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995.
Temas:
Phytogeography > Canada.
Plant ecology > Canada.
Phytogeography.
Phytogéographie > Canada.
Écologie végétale > Canada.
Phytogéographie.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
Phytogeography
Plant ecology
Pflanzenökologie
Vegetation
Plantengeografie.
Canada
Kanada
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Illustrations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Background
  • 1.2 Scope of the Text
  • 1.3 World Vegetation Types
  • 1.3.1 Vegetation Formations and Zones
  • 1.3.2 Zonobiomes
  • 1.3.3 Ecoclimates
  • 1.3.4 The Canadian Vegetation Classification System
  • 1.3.5 Ecozones
  • 1.3.6 Floristic Realms
  • 1.3.7 Plant Species Nomenclature
  • 1.4 Soil Classifications and Soil Systems
  • 1.5 Climatic Parameters
  • 1.5.1 The Role of Climate
  • 1.5.2 Moisture indexes
  • 1.5.3 Climate Diagrams
  • 1.6 Plant Strategies
  • 1.6.1 Competition1.6.2 Hydrature and Moisture Regulation
  • 1.6.3 Life Forms
  • 1.6.4 Leaf Morphology and Adaptation
  • 1.7 Biomass and Net Primary Productivity
  • 2 Tundra
  • 2.1 Tundra Distribution
  • 2.2 Climate
  • 2.3 Soils
  • 2.4 Tundra in North America
  • 2.4.1 Ecoclimatic Sub-Provinces and Regions
  • 2.4.2 High and Mid-Arctic
  • 2.4.3 Low Arctic
  • 2.5 Tundra in Other Northern Hemisphere Locations
  • 2.5.1 Arctic Tundra
  • 2.5.2 Typical Tundra
  • 2.5.3 Southern Tundra
  • 2.5.4 Tundra on Arctic Islands
  • 2.6 Tundra in the Southern Hemisphere
  • 2.6.1 The Antarctic Subregion2.6.2 The Sub-Antarctic Subregion
  • 2.7 Alpine Tundra
  • 2.7.1 Temperate-Latitude Alpine Tundra
  • 2.7.2 Low-Latitude (Equatorial) Alpine Tundra
  • 2.8 Primary Production and Phytomass in Tundra
  • 3 Forest-Tundra or Boreal-Tundra Ecotone
  • 3.1 Definitions
  • 3.2 Distribution
  • 3.3 Climate
  • 3.4 Soils
  • 3.5 Forest-Tundra in Canada
  • 3.5.1 Ecoclimatic Sub-Provinces
  • 3.5.2 The Shrub Subzone (Northern Forest-Tundra)
  • 3.5.3 The Forest Subzone (Southern Forest-Tundra)
  • 3.6 Eurasian Forest-Tundra
  • 3.7 Primary Production and Phytomass in Forest-Tundra4 Boreal Forest (Taiga) and Mixed Forest Transition
  • 4.1 Distribution
  • 4.2 Climate
  • 4.3 Soils
  • 4.4 Boreal Forest in North America
  • 4.4.1 Open Lichen Woodland
  • 4.4.2 Northern Coniferous Forest
  • 4.4.3 Mixed-Forest (Boreal-Broadleaf Ecotone)
  • 4.4.4 Mixed-Forest Transition to Grassland (Northern Mixedwoods)
  • 4.5 Eurasian Boreal
  • 4.5.1 The European Boreal
  • 4.5.2 The Siberian Boreal
  • 4.5.3 Northwest Pacific Fringe Boreal
  • 4.6 Primary Production and Phytomass in Boreal Forest
  • 5 Prairie (Steppe)5.1 Distribution
  • 5.2 Climate
  • 5.2.1 North America
  • 5.2.2 Climate in Eurasia and Elsewhere
  • 5.3 Soils
  • 5.4 Prairie in North America
  • 5.4.1 The Canadian Prairie
  • 5.4.2 Prairie in the USA
  • 5.5 Eurasian Steppe
  • 5.6 Southern Hemisphere Grasslands
  • 5.6.1 The High Veldt
  • 5.6.2 The Pampas/Campos Grasslands
  • 5.7 Primary Production and Biomass
  • 6 Cordilleran Environments in Western North America
  • 6.1 Canada's Cordilleran Ecoclimatic Provinces
  • 6.1.1 Distribution
  • 6.1.2 Climate
  • 6.1.3 Soils

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