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, aspects of reproductive biology, and human impacts on alpine vegetation. Geographically the book covers all parts of the world including the tropics.
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"This book should be required reading for all ecologists and ecology students. Modern treatment of alpine ecology and the inclusion of tropics and good treatment of tropical alpine environments makes this book unique. ...the best modern treatment of "functional ecology" of alpine plants. Both the author and the publisher should be commended for this book." (Botanical Electronic News)
"For anyone interested in alpine plant ecology (or ecophysiology) this book is a must, being encyclopaedic in both scope and information content. Though it deals with potentially complex topics, the book has been organised carefully and logically, and the topics are treated with a simple yet elegant writing style which exudes the author's enthusiasm and fascination. It was a delight to read, like a good novel that one is reluctant to set down. ... a most impressive and comprehensive, up-to-the-minute book by undoubtedly the world's foremost alpine plant ecologist and ecophysiologist." (New Zealand Journal of Ecology)
"The structure of the book and the approach in presenting information make it easy to read. Highlighted information throughout the chapters and summaries at the end of each chapter assist readers in recapturing important information. Color plates included at the end of the bok serve as a good summary of the book's contents. ... provides the most up-to-date information about the ecology of plants at high altitudes."(Mountain Research and Development)
"This book should be required reading for all ecologists and ecology students. Modern treatment of alpine ecology and the inclusion of tropics and good treatment of tropical alpine environments makes this book unique. ...the best modern treatment of "functional ecology" of alpine plants. Both the author and the publisher should be commended for this book." (Botanical Electronic News)
"For anyone interested in alpine plant ecology (or ecophysiology) this book is a must, being encyclopaedic in both scope and information content. Though it deals with potentially complex topics, the book has been organised carefully and logically, and the topics are treated with a simple yet elegant writing style which exudes the author's enthusiasm and fascination. It was a delight to read, like a good novel that one is reluctant to set down. ... a most impressive and comprehensive, up-to-the-minute book by undoubtedly the world's foremost alpine plant ecologist and ecophysiologist." (New Zealand Journal of Ecology)
"The structure of the book and the approach in presenting information make it easy to read. Highlighted information throughout the chapters and summaries at the end of each chapter assist readers in recapturing important information. Color plates included at the end of the bok serve as a good summary of the book's contents. ... provides the most up-to-date information about the ecology of plants at high altitudes."(Mountain Research and Development)
About the Author
Christian Körner was born 1949 in Salzburg, Austria. He studied in Innsbruck, where he received his Ph.D. and lectured until his appointment as Professor of Botany at the University of Basel (Switzerland) in 1989.
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This review is from: Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems (Hardcover)
The "Alpine Plant Life" in the most wonderful and complete book about high mountain plant and ecosystems that I have ever read. There you can find every "secret" about the environment and the marvellous plants that grow in the altitude. I congratulate the author who has succeded in turning a scientific book into an easy to read novel. I recommend this book to anyone that wont to enjoy and learn about that impressive world. Marcela Ferreyra, Biologist who works in the High Andean Ecosystem in Patagonia Argentina, author of the book "High Mountain Flowers of the Patagonian Andes".
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lowland forbs, closed alpine vegetation, altitudinal reduction, topsoil desiccation, treeline formation, alpine forbs, alpine sedge community, snowbed species, low altitude plants, elevational reduction, tropical alpine plants, climatic treeline, low stature plants, alpine plant ecology, treeline trees, canopy warming, scree vegetation, tropical treelines, leaf mass ratio, lowland plant species, tropical alpine vegetation, alpine plant life, greater leaf thickness, lower alpine belt, alpine life zone Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Swiss Alps, Rocky Mountains, New Guinea, Rocky Mts, Niwot Ridge, Tirolian Alps, Furka Pass, Austrian Alps, Cumbres Calchaquies, Ecuadorian Andes, Hohe Tauern, Sierra Nevada of California, Venezuelan Andes, North America, Alps of Tirol, Northern Hemisphere, Argentinan Andes, Australian Snowy Mountains, Guagua Pichincha, Hoher Nebelkogel, Medicine Bow Mountains of Wyoming, Month Fig, Old Man Range, Pelaez-Menendez Riedl New!
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lowland forbs, closed alpine vegetation, altitudinal reduction, topsoil desiccation, treeline formation, alpine forbs, alpine sedge community, snowbed species, low altitude plants, elevational reduction, tropical alpine plants, climatic treeline, low stature plants, alpine plant ecology, treeline trees, canopy warming, scree vegetation, tropical treelines, leaf mass ratio, lowland plant species, tropical alpine vegetation, alpine plant life, greater leaf thickness, lower alpine belt, alpine life zone Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Swiss Alps, Rocky Mountains, New Guinea, Rocky Mts, Niwot Ridge, Tirolian Alps, Furka Pass, Austrian Alps, Cumbres Calchaquies, Ecuadorian Andes, Hohe Tauern, Sierra Nevada of California, Venezuelan Andes, North America, Alps of Tirol, Northern Hemisphere, Argentinan Andes, Australian Snowy Mountains, Guagua Pichincha, Hoher Nebelkogel, Medicine Bow Mountains of Wyoming, Month Fig, Old Man Range, Pelaez-Menendez Riedl New!
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- The Rocky Mountains (World's Wild Places) by Bryce S. Walker on page 255, page 256, and page 298
- Cambridge University (Britain in Old Photographs) by C Callaghan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Irian Jaya by Kal Muller in Back Matter
- British Columbia by Carol Baker in Back Matter
- New York by Tama Janowitz in Back Matter
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