Vegetation structure and function at multiple spatial, temporal and conceptual scales. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elgene Owen Box, editor.
• Editors: Box, Elgene Owen
• Contents: Part I Global Scale -- Global Bioclimatic Zonation -- Vegetation Functional Types and Traits at Multiple Scales -- Part II -- Regional Vegetation Analysis and Synthesis -- Evergreen Broad-Leaved Forests of East Asia -- Evergreen-Deciduous Broad-Leaved Forest Ecotone in Eastern China -- Ecology of tertiary Relict Deciduous Trees in Subtropical Regions of China -- Classification of Lower-Montane Evergreen Forests in Southern India and Sri Lanka -- Dynamics of the Hawaiian Rainforest Ecosystem, a study at multiple scales -- On the Steppes and Shrub Thickets in Onon Dahuria -- Plant Diversity, Vegetation and Phytogeography of the Khorassan-Kopet Dagh Floristic Province in the Irano-Turanian Region -- The Vegetation Series of Italy and Applications in Biodiversity Conservation -- Marcescent Quercus pyrenaica Forest in the Iberian Peninsula -- Mediterranean Ultramafic (Serpentine) Chaparrals of California -- Part III -- Local Vegetation Description and Analysis -- Amphibious Vegetation in the Afro-Alpine Belt and the Role of Cryoturbation in Creating RegenerationNiches -- Large Habitat Range but Low Floristic Variation: the case of Festuco rubrae-Agrostietum capillaris 3 tables (all embedded) grasslands -- The Caricetum distichae Association in Italy -- The Vegetation of the Pie Vettore Debris (Sibillini Mountains, Central Italy) -- Microtopography-Induced Differentiation of Moss Synusiae in Wet Grasslands covering a Karst Plain in Central Italy -- At What Scales and in What Vegetation Types Should we Sample Non-Vascular Plants? -- Part IV Conceptual Methodologies -- Moving from Patterns to Processes: a Challenge for the Phytosociology of the 21st Century -- A Multi-Scale Analysis of Plant Diversity along Soil Nutrient Gradients -- Part V Applied Vegetation Science -- Fallopia japonica (Japanese knotweed) in Japan: Why is it not a pest for Japanese people? -- Iberian Atlantic Forest Restoration: an experiment based in vegetation succession -- Carbon-Stock Measurement in Community Forests in Lampung Province, Sumatra -- Vegetation History and Dynamics in New Zealand -- Future Scenarios and Improved Trajectories towards Restoring Natural Patterns -- Fundamentals and Perspectives of Geobotanical Research at the Beginning of the 21st Century.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustratiins
• Subjects: 581.7; Earth sciences; Plant ecology; Plant communities; Botany; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany; Plant communities; Plant ecology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Botany; Plant ecology; Botany & plant sciences; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Biogeography; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319214528; 3319214527; 3319214519; 9783319214511
• Related ISBNs: 9783319214511
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 22, 2016).
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