Author : Christian Körner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 364298018X
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.
Author : A. B. Costin
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780643065215
A field guide for visitors to the Kosciuszko National Park, retaining the colour sections and leaving out the taxanomic section dealing with systematics. The book describes and illustrates the area's 200 native species.
Author : Harold Mooney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520278801
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for CaliforniaÕs remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem typeÑits distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of CaliforniaÕs ecological patterns and the history of the stateÕs various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the stateÕs ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of CaliforniaÕs environment and curious naturalists.
Author : Jim Pojar
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781551058924
These experienced and highly respected nature writers have produced an outstanding field guide to the plants that grow above the tree line, at the higher elevations of the Rockies and Cascades, and other ranges of the Western Cordillera of North America. Here is comprehensive information on almost 1,200 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and more, with over 2,000 illustrations: color photos, line drawings and range maps.
Author : Russell K. Monson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461475002
In this book, plant biology is considered from the perspective of plants and their surrounding environment, including both biotic and abiotic interactions. The intended audience is undergraduate students in the middle or final phases of their programs of study. Topics are developed to provide a rudimentary understanding of how plant-environment interactions span multiple spatiotemporal scales, and how this rudimentary knowledge can be applied to understand the causes of ecosystem vulnerabilities in the face of global climate change and expansion of natural resource use by human societies. In all chapters connections are made from smaller to larger scales of ecological organization, providing a foundation for understanding plant ecology. Where relevant, environmental threats to ecological systems are identified and future research needs are discussed. As future generations take on the responsibility for managing ecosystem goods and services, one of the most effective resources that can be passed on is accumulated knowledge of how organisms, populations, species, communities and ecosystems function and interact across scales of organization. This book is intended to provide some of that knowledge, and hopefully provide those generations with the ability to avoid some of the catastrophic environmental mistakes that prior generations have made.
Author : Gillian Price
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1783620323
This pocket field guide to identifying 230 common Alpine flowers is packed with all the information you need to recognise your favourites while out in the mountains. Designed for the non-specialist, this little handbook is arranged by colour and also includes a glossary of flower parts and an introduction which describes the amazing lengths that these tiny gems go to to survive at altitude. Alpine expert author Gillian Price says: 'It never ceases to amaze me that such tiny plants can spend months on end buried under metres of snow and ice - weathering temperatures as low as minus 25°C - then sprout back to life when things thaw out and warm up. In springtime you can spot the fragile purple petals of the Alpine Snowbell pushing their way through snow - they contain an anti-freeze that enables them to melt it. Masters of adaptation and survival, alpine flowers can trap insects, store precious water, expel excess minerals and fool insects.' Each flower entry includes a clear photograph and essential description along with its name in English, Latin, German, French and Italian and interesting information about the origins of some of the more curious flower names. Each one is also indexed by its English and its Latin name so you can follow up a hunch about a name or find out more about a flower.
Author : J. E. G. Good
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Gardening
ISBN :
A concise introduction to the science behind the success of alpine plants, this fascinating and accessible book will enable gardeners to tailor their cultivation practices in lowland gardens to mimic the alpine habitat as closely as possible.
Author : Graham Nicholls
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781417558490
North America is replete with beautiful aplines, and this guide is equally useful to the traveler or the gardener for its identification, propagation, and cultivation information.
Author : Ansgar Hoppe
Publisher : Pelagic Publishing Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781907807404
Explore the colourful world of alpine flowers. This practical book will help you make a quick, reliable identification of over 500 species illustrated with colour photographs. For each plant the common name, scientific name, flowering time, plant height, protected status, and distribution (habitat and altitude) are described.
Author : CJ Totterdell
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1486309135
Around Australia’s highest mountain lies a rare ecosystem, an alpine area of outstanding beauty and diversity, strikingly different from other alpine ecosystems of the world but with common features. Kosciuszko Alpine Flora describes and illustrates the area’s 212 flowering plants and ferns, of which 21 are endemic. It discusses the geological and human history of the area, the life-forms and habitats of the plants, and explores the various plant communities and their environmental relationships. Ideal for the tourist or general interest reader, this field edition excludes the detailed taxonomic section.
