Scale Dependent Aspects of Plant Diversity in Semiarid High Mountain Regions
Author : Friederike Grüninger
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Arid regions plants
ISBN :
Author : Friederike Grüninger
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Arid regions plants
ISBN :
Author : Eva M. Spehn
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2006-01-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1420002872
Part of the worldwide biodiversity program DIVERSITAS, the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) assesses the biological richness of high-elevation biota. GMBA's focus includes the uppermost forest regions or their substitute rangeland vegetation, the treeline ecotone, and the alpine and nival belts. Providing more than description, the GM
Author : Christoph Strupp
Publisher :
Page : 1652 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Authors, German
ISBN :
A comprehensive bibliography of books and scholarship on the United States produced in German-speaking countries from 1956-2005.
Author : F. I. Woodward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1987-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521282147
Correlation between plant distribution and climate is examined over different time and space scales to determine the mechanisms of control in physiological and biochemical terms.
Author : Christian Körner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2003-07-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783540003472
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.This second edition of Alpine Plant Life gives new references, new diagrams, and extensively revised chapters.
Author : Philippus Wester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319922882
This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable mountain development and will serve as a basis for evidence-based decision-making to safeguard the environment and advance people’s well-being. The compiled content is based on the collective knowledge of over 300 leading researchers, experts and policymakers, brought together by the Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme (HIMAP) under the coordination of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). This assessment was conducted between 2013 and 2017 as the first of a series of monitoring and assessment reports, under the guidance of the HIMAP Steering Committee: Eklabya Sharma (ICIMOD), Atiq Raman (Bangladesh), Yuba Raj Khatiwada (Nepal), Linxiu Zhang (China), Surendra Pratap Singh (India), Tandong Yao (China) and David Molden (ICIMOD and Chair of the HIMAP SC). This First HKH Assessment Report consists of 16 chapters, which comprehensively assess the current state of knowledge of the HKH region, increase the understanding of various drivers of change and their impacts, address critical data gaps and develop a set of evidence-based and actionable policy solutions and recommendations. These are linked to nine mountain priorities for the mountains and people of the HKH consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals. This book is a must-read for policy makers, academics and students interested in this important region and an essentially important resource for contributors to global assessments such as the IPCC reports.
Author : Ch. Korner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1000699013
Originally published in 2002, Mountain Biodiversity deals with the biological richness, function and change of mountain environments. The book was birthed from the first global conference on mountain biodiversity and was a contribution to the International Year of Mountains in 2002. The book examines biological diversity as essential for the integrity of mountain ecosystems and argues that this dependency is likely to increase as environmental climates and social conditions change. This book seeks to examine the biological riches of all major mountain ranges, from around the world and using existing knowledge on mountain biodiversity, examines a broad range of research in diversity, including that of plants, animals, human and bacterial diversity. The book also examines climate change and mountain biodiversity as well as land use and conservation.
Author : Rajendra Mohan Panda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 3031133471
This book discusses plant invasions and environmental impacts on the Himalayas through a novel procedure, and helps to understand the influences of climate, physiography, soil, and disturbance on plant richness in mountain systems. Assessing invasion risks to mountain space under future climate change scenarios is highly significant for appropriate preparedness, and this book details analytical and modeling techniques to assess the conditions of mountain ecosystem and ecology to better inform our preparation for future environmental challenges. The book presents the state-of-the-art understanding of the species-environment relationships in a global biodiversity hotspot, relatively unexplored areas for the Himalayan life-form richness. The book provides not only the academic but also the professional community and policymakers a review and update on modeling applications for determining interactions of the plant species with the environment of a subtropical mountain ecosystem across a climatic gradient. Currently, there is no book in the market addressing the implementation and applications of modeling in the Himalayan plant and environment continuum, and most of the existing books cover the species richness pattern along the elevation gradient and basic ethnobotanical features of a mountain system. Since the book covers the applications of novel methods and modeling for ecological analysis of mountain ecosystems, it will also be significant for the professional market. Therefore, the book aims to fill the gap between scientists and professionals in the use of modeling strategies to monitor biodiversity in mountain systems for the formulation of conservation, adaptation, and mitigation principles.
Author : Shreekar Pant
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 2832538916
Author : Michael Evenari
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674606722
The Negev, first published over a decade ago, told the story of some twenty years of study of southern Israel's desert. It synthesized the findings of botanists, geologists, soil scientists, agronomists, archaeologists, historians, and engineers and told how the applications of their work produced an agricultural surplus in this forbiddingly dry, hot region. Now Michael Evenari has amplified the book with data from another decade of work. He describes the efforts at a new farm at Wadi Mashash, extends the weather data another ten years, presents further work on the adaptations of plants and animals to desert conditions, and takes a much deeper look at the historical precedents for the method of runoff agriculture, which has made the desert bloom.