Book ID: 91182
Wieser, G. and M. Tausz (eds.)
Trees at their Upper Limit. Treelife Limitation at the Alpine Timberline. 2007. (Plant Ecophysiology, Volume 5). illus. X, 232 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Contents (main headings only): Current concepts for treelife limitationat the upper timberline/ Climate at the upper timberline/ Soils - heterogeneous at a microscale/ Mycorrhiza in the alpine timberline ecotone: nutritional implications/ Vegetation at the upper timberline/Limitation by an insufficient carbon assimilation and allocation/ Limitation by growth processes/ Limits in water relations/ Phytopathogens at the alpine timberline/ Frost resistance at the uppertimberline/ Photo-oxidative stress at the timberline/ Global change atthe upper timberline/ Synopsis.