Tropical Alpine Environments

Plant Form and Function
Herausgeber: Meinzer, F. C.; Smith, Alan P.; Rundel, Philip W.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the unique form, function and physiology of tropical alpine plants.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780521054119
• ISBN-10: 0521054117
• Artikelnr.: 23366338

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction to tropical alpine
vegetation A. P. Smith; 2. Tropical alpine climates P. W. Rundel; 3. Páramo
microclimate and leaf thermal balance of Andean giant rosette plants F. C.
Meinzer, G. Goldstein and F. Rada; 4. Comparative water relations of
tropical alpine plants F. C. Meinzer, G. Goldstein and P. W. Rundel; 5.
Cold tolerance in tropical alpine plants E. Beck; 6. Anatomy of tropical
alpine plants S. Carlquist; 7. Environmental biology of a tropical treeline
species, polylepis sericea G. Goldstein, F. C. Meinzer and F. Rada; 8.
Morphological and physiological radiation in páramo draba W. A. Pfitsch; 9.
Sediment-based carbon nutrition in tropical alpine isoetes J. E. Keeley, D.
A. DeMason, R. Gonzalez and K. R. Markham; 10. Functional significance of
inflorescence pubescence in tropical alpine species of Puya G. A. Miller;
11. Turnover and conservation of nutrients in the pachycaul senecio
keniodendron E. Beck; 12. Soil nutrient dynamics in East African alpine
ecosystems H. Rehder; 13. An overview of the reproductive biology of
espeletia (Asteraceae) in the Venezuelan Andes P. E. Berry and R. Calvo;
14. Population biology of Mount Kenya lobelias T. P. Young; 15. Population
biology of Senecio kenodendron (Asteraceae), an Afroalpine giant rosette
plant A. P. Smith and T. P. Young; 16. Population dynamics and flowering in
a Hawaiian alpine rosette plant, Argyroxiphium sandiwicense P. W. Rundel
and M. S. Witter; 17. Plant form and function in alpine New Guinea R. J.
Hnatiuk; 18. Alpine herbivory on Mount Kenya T. P. Young and A. P. Smith;
19. Biotic interactions in Hawaiian high elevation ecosystems L. L. Loope
and A. C. Medeiros; 20. Tropical alpine ecology: progress and priorities P.
W. Rundel, F. C. Meinzer and A. P. Smith; Index.