| Edizione | [1st ed. 2009.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Berlin, : Springer, c2009
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (517 p.)
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| Disciplina |
577.322gerDNB
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| Altri autori (Persone) |
GleixnerGerd
HeimannMartin <1949->
WirthChristian
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| Collana |
Ecological studies
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| Soggetto topico |
Old growth forest ecology
Old growth forests
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| ISBN |
1-282-33117-5
9786612331176
3-540-92706-9
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value – an Overview -- Old-Growth Forest Definitions: a Pragmatic View -- Old Trees and the Meaning of ‘Old’ -- Aboveground Processes -- Ecophysiological Characteristics of Mature Trees and Stands - Consequences for Old-Growth Forest Productivity -- The Imprint of Species Turnover on Old-Growth Forest Carbon Balances - Insights From a Trait-Based Model of Forest Dynamics -- Functional Relationships Between Old-Growth Forest Canopies, Understorey Light and Vegetation Dynamics -- Biosphere–Atmosphere Exchange of Old-Growth Forests: Processes and Pattern -- Woody Detritus its Contribution to Carbon Dynamics of Old-Growth Forests: the Temporal Context -- Belowground Processes -- Aboveground and Belowground Consequences of Long-Term Forest Retrogression in the Timeframe of Millennia and Beyond -- Rooting Patterns of Old-Growth Forests: is Aboveground Structural and Functional Diversity Mirrored Belowground? -- Soil Carbon Accumulation in Old-Growth Forests -- Is There a Theoretical Limit to Soil Carbon Storage in Old-Growth Forests? A Model Analysis with Contrasting Approaches -- Biomes -- Old-Growth Forests in the Canadian Boreal: the Exception Rather than the Rule? -- Biomass Chronosequences of United States Forests: Implications for Carbon Storage and Forest Management -- Temperate and Boreal Old-Growth Forests: How do Their Growth Dynamics and Biodiversity Differ from Young Stands and Managed Forests? -- Old-Growth Temperate Rainforests of South America: Conservation, Plant–Animal Interactions, and Baseline Biogeochemical Processes -- Tropical Rain Forests as Old-Growth Forests -- Human Dimensions -- Detecting Intact Forests from Space: Hot Spots of Loss, Deforestation and the UNFCCC -- Impacts of Land Use on Habitat Functions of Old-Growth Forests and their Biodiversity -- Old-Growth Forests in the Context of International Environmental Agreements -- Synthesis -- Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value – a Synthesis.
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| Altri titoli varianti |
Old growth forests
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820033203321 |
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An old-growth definition for sand pine forests / / Kenneth W. Outcalt
