R M M Crawford

Plants at the Margin

Ecological Limits and Climate Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Beautifully illustrated, thoughtful study of the effects of climate change on plants in marginal areas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 193mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1524g
• ISBN-13: 9780521623094
• ISBN-10: 052162309X
• Artikelnr.: 23526606

Autorenporträt

R. M. M. Crawford has taught and researched at the University of St Andrews since 1962, pursuing the study of plant responses to the environment in a wide range of habitats in Scotland, Scandinavia, North and South America and the Arctic. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Linnean Society and an associate member of the Belgian Royal Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Recognizing margins
2. Biodiversity in marginal areas
3. Resource acquisition in marginal habitats
4. Reproduction at the periphery
5. Arctic and sub-Arctic treelines and the tundra taiga interface
6. Plant survival in a warmer Arctic
7. Land-plants at coastal margins
8. Survival at the water's edge
9. Woody plants at the margin
10. Plants at high altitudes
11. Man at the margins
12. Summary and conclusions.