03084nam 2200661Ia 450 991077855600332120211005012914.01-383-02968-71-282-32864-697866123286400-19-154657-7(CKB)1000000000806549(EBL)472137(OCoLC)535735952(SSID)ssj0000335225(PQKBManifestationID)11257614(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000335225(PQKBWorkID)10272485(PQKB)10319367(Au-PeEL)EBL472137(CaPaEBR)ebr10346431(Au-PeEL)EBL4964049(CaONFJC)MIL232864(PPN)139689176(MiAaPQ)EBC472137(EXLCZ)99100000000080654920080902d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe biology of alpine habitats[electronic resource] /Laszlo Nagy and Georg GrabherrOxford Oxford University Press20091 online resource (389 p.)Biology of habitatsDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-856704-9 0-19-856703-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction: What is alpine?; 2 High mountains in latitude life zones: a worldwide perspective; 3 Elevation gradients; 4 The alpine environment: energy and climate; 5 Habitat creating factors: landforms, hydrology, and soils; 6 Alpine terrestrial habitats and community types/assemblages; 7 Biogeography, adaptation, and evolution of alpine organisms; 8 Temporal and spatial dynamics; 9 Global change impacts on alpine habitats: climate and nitrogen deposition; 10 Land use and conservation of alpine landscapes, ecosystems, and species; 11 Concluding remarksReferencesIndexThis book is unique in providing a global overview of alpine (high mountain) habitats that occur above the natural (cold-limited) tree line, describing the factors that have shaped them over both ecological and evolutionary timescales. The broad geographic coverage helps synthesise common features whilst revealing differences in the world's major alpine systems from the Arctic to the Tropics. The words ""barren"" and ""wasteland"" have often been applied to describe landscapes beyondthe treeline. However, a closer look reveals a large diversity of habitats, assemblages and individual taxa, larBiology of habitats.Mountain ecologyUpland ecologyMountain ecology.Upland ecology.577.538Nagy L(Laszlo),1961-1525708Grabherr Georg1525709MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778556003321The biology of alpine habitats3767258UNINA