Book ID: 75001
Körner, Christian
Alpine Plant Life. Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems. 2nd ed. 2014. illus. XI, 349 p. Paper bd.
Treats a wide range of topics: alpine climate and soils, plant distribution and the tree - line phenomenon, physiological ecology of water-. nutritional- and carbon relations of alpine plants, plant stress and plant development, biomass production, aspects of reproductive biology, and human impacts on alpine vegetation. Covers geographically all parts of the world including the tropics. - This is soft cover reprint of the 2003 edition. Out of print. Few copies available only.