Tropical alpine environments : plant form and function

Tropical alpine environments plant form and function

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 season...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Rundel, Philip W. (Philip Wilson), editor (editor), Smith, Alan P., editor, Meinzer, F. C. (Fredrick C.), editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 1994.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4546568x*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction to tropical alpine vegetation / A.P. Smith
  • 2. Tropical alpine climates / P.W. Rundel
  • 3. Paramo 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 paramo 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.

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