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Alpine Plant Life - Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems (Hardcover, 3rd ed. 2021)
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Alpine Plant Life - Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems (Hardcover, 3rd ed. 2021)
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This book is a completely revised, substantially extended treatment
of the physical and biological factors that drive life in high
mountains. The book covers the characteristics of alpine plant
life, alpine climate and soils, life under snow, stress tolerance,
treeline ecology, plant water, carbon, and nutrient relations,
plant growth and productivity, developmental processes, and two
largely novel chapters on alpine plant reproduction and global
change biology. The book explains why the topography driven
exposure of plants to dramatic micro-climatic gradients over very
short distances causes alpine biodiversity to be particularly
robust against climatic change. Geographically, this book draws on
examples from all parts of the world, including the tropics. This
book is complemented with novel evidence and insight that emerged
over the last 17 years of alpine plant research. The number of
figures - mostly in color - nearly doubled, with many photographs
providing a vivid impression of alpine plant life worldwide.
Christian Koerner was born in 1949 in Austria, received his
academic education at the University of Innsbruck, and was full
professor of Botany at the University of Basel from 1989 to 2014.
As emeritus Professor he is continuing alpine plant research in the
Swiss Alps.
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