Alpine Plant Life; Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosyst

Korner, Christian

ISBN 10: 3540654380 / ISBN 13: 9783540654384

Published by Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999

About this Item

Copy in illustrated card wraps. Previous owners address label on verso of upper cover. Clean text with b/w plates and illustrations and diagrams. This is a heavy book and may require additional postage.

Seller Inventory # 034379

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alpine Plant Life; Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosyst
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540654380
• ISBN 13: 9783540654384
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History

About this title

Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

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.