Ebook: Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems

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.

---

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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Plant ecology at high elevations....Pages 1-7
The alpine life zone....Pages 9-19
Alpine climate....Pages 21-30
The climate plants experience....Pages 31-45
Life under snow: protection and limitation....Pages 47-62
Alpine soils....Pages 63-76
Alpine treelines....Pages 77-100
Climatic stress....Pages 101-119
Water relations....Pages 121-148
Mineral nutrition....Pages 149-169
Uptake and loss of carbon....Pages 171-200
Carbon investments....Pages 201-220
Growth dynamics....Pages 221-233
Cell division and tissue formation....Pages 235-245
Plant biomass production....Pages 247-258
Plant reproduction....Pages 259-290
Global change at high elevation....Pages 291-298
Back Matter....Pages 299-345

---

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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Plant ecology at high elevations....Pages 1-7
The alpine life zone....Pages 9-19
Alpine climate....Pages 21-30
The climate plants experience....Pages 31-45
Life under snow: protection and limitation....Pages 47-62
Alpine soils....Pages 63-76
Alpine treelines....Pages 77-100
Climatic stress....Pages 101-119
Water relations....Pages 121-148
Mineral nutrition....Pages 149-169
Uptake and loss of carbon....Pages 171-200
Carbon investments....Pages 201-220
Growth dynamics....Pages 221-233
Cell division and tissue formation....Pages 235-245
Plant biomass production....Pages 247-258
Plant reproduction....Pages 259-290
Global change at high elevation....Pages 291-298
Back Matter....Pages 299-345
....