Tropical Alpine Environments : Plant Form and Function Paperback / softback
Edited by Philip W. (University of California, Los Angeles) Rundel, Alan P. Smith, F. C. Meinzer
Paperback / softback
Description
Plants growing in tropical alpine environments (at altitudes above the closed canopy forest and below the limit of plant life) have evolved distinct forms to cope with a hostile environment characterized by cold, drought and fire.
Unlike temperate alpine environments, where there are distinct seasons of favourable and unfavourable conditions for growth, tropical alpine habitats present summer conditions every day and winter conditions every night.
Using examples from all over the tropics, this fascinating account reviews, for the first time, the unique form and functional relationships of tropical alpine plants examining both their physiological ecology and population biology.
It will appeal to anyone interested in tropical vegetation and plant physiological adaptations to hostile environment, as well as to researchers in biogeography and ecology.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:392 pages, 54 Tables, unspecified; 49 Halftones, unspecified; 86 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/01/2008
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- ISBN:9780521054119
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:392 pages, 54 Tables, unspecified; 49 Halftones, unspecified; 86 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/01/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521054119
