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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298405103321

Titolo

Igapó (Black-water flooded forests) of the Amazon Basin / / edited by Randall W. Myster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-90122-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 311 p. 91 illus., 70 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

574.52642

Soggetti

Ecology 

Ecosystems

Forestry

Climate change

Biodiversity

Community ecology, Biotic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Randall W. Myster -- Section I Igapó over space and time -- Section II Water and light -- Section III Soil and the carbon cycle -- Section IV Litter, fungi and invertebrates -- Section V Vertebrates.-Section VI Plants -- Section VII Human impacts and management.

Sommario/riassunto

Igapó forests are a common part of the Amazon whose ecosystems are critical to our shared human future. The introduction addresses the structure, function and dynamics of igapó forests in the Amazon basin, focusing on their uniqueness due to their high level of complexity defined as the many ways that different components of igapó forests in the Amazon basin ecosystem interact and also on how those interactions are on a higher-order compared to other tropical forests. The text then breaks down the igapó ecosystem using these sections: (1) Igapó forests over space and time, (2) Water, light and soils, (3) The carbon cycle, (4) Litter, fungi and invertebrates, (5) Vertebrates, (6) Plant population studies, (7) Plant community studies, and (8) Human impacts and management. Experts from around the world serve as chapter authors that review what is known about their specific part of



the igapó ecosystem, what research they have done, and also what needs to be done in the future. .