Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems

by Christian Körner and Christian Karner

Book Overview

Generations of plant scientists have been fascinated by alpine plant life - with the exposure of organisms to dramatic climatic gradients over a very short distance. This comprehensive text treats a wide range of topics: alpine climate and soils, plant distribution and the treeline phenomenon, physiological ecology of water-, nutritional- and carbon relations of alpine plants, plant stress and plant development, biomass production, and aspects of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540003479
• ISBN13: 9783540003472
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.4"