The biology of alpine habitats / / Laszlo Nagy and Georg Grabherr

• Autore: Nagy L (Laszlo), <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (389 p.)
• Disciplina: 577.538
• Soggetto topico: Mountain ecology; Upland ecology
• Altri autori: GrabherrGeorg
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 remarks ; ReferencesIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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, lar
• Titolo autorizzato: The biology of alpine habitats
• ISBN: 1-383-02968-7; 1-282-32864-6; 9786612328640; 0-19-154657-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828937303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Biology of habitats.