Vegetation Structure and Function at Multiple Spatial, Temporal and Conceptual Scales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vegetation Structure and Function at Multiple Spatial, Temporal and Conceptual Scales write by Elgene Owen Box. This book was released on 2016-03-17. Vegetation Structure and Function at Multiple Spatial, Temporal and Conceptual Scales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This commemorative volume of invited papers in vegetation science covers a full range of topics, objectives, methods and applications, including conservation and management tasks. These require study at different temporal and spatial scales, often simultaneously. Methodology is important in science, since it responds to particular questions and raises others. It is also closely related to the scale of investigation. Chapters in this book illustrate this interdependence, even in basic tasks such as vegetation sampling and description, measurements and mapping. Individual chapters present globally applicable systems, regional syntheses and local analyses and applications, plus conceptual methodologies, including currently debated hot topics. Vegetation types treated include tropical rainforests, temperate forests, dry steppes and scrub and local turf, sedge and moss communities. There are also chapters on re-vegetation, woodlot management, ecology of an invasive species, and trajectory planning in conservation. This book will be useful to both students and practitioners, for its reviews and examples and as a potential textbook suitable for graduate-level courses and seminars.
Tools for Landscape-Scale Geobotany and Conservation
Tools for Landscape-Scale Geobotany and Conservation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tools for Landscape-Scale Geobotany and Conservation write by Franco Pedrotti. This book was released on 2021-07-10. Tools for Landscape-Scale Geobotany and Conservation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contains the papers presented at the conferences of the International Association Vegetation Science of Pirenopolis (2016) on Applied Mapping for Conservation and Management: from Plant and of Palermo (2017) on Vegetation Patterns in relation to multi-scale levels of ecological complexity: from associations to geoseries. The reports refer to general themes (semiological bases of mapping, dynamic-catenal mapping, nature conservation, plant biodiversity, biogeography, and geosynphytosociology) and their application to vegetation in different parts of the world (Andes of Bolivia, California, Kaga Coast in Japan, Southeastern USA, Morocco, Europe: Carpathians mountains, Swiss Alps, Sicily, Southern Portugal, Spain, and French Atlantic coastal). One of the benefits of the book is that it offers the possibility of comparing the different methodologies used in very different types of vegetation in the world (Boreal, Mediterranean, Tropical, Neotropical, etc.). The book is intended for researchers, Ph.D. students, and university professors.
Geographical Changes in Vegetation and Plant Functional Types
Geographical Changes in Vegetation and Plant Functional Types - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographical Changes in Vegetation and Plant Functional Types write by Andrew M. Greller. This book was released on 2018-04-18. Geographical Changes in Vegetation and Plant Functional Types available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents studies on current vegetation topics, from polar to tropical regions. It is a festschrift to mark the 70th birthday of Prof. Elgene O. Box, who has studied vegetation all over the world, both through fieldwork and modeling. It reflects a number of his interests, including basic ecological plant forms (cf ‘plant functional types’), temperate-zone forests, and evergreen versus seasonal patterns. Section 1 discusses the concept of vegetation series, while Section 2 has two global-scale chapters on plant functional traits and whether they are related more to climate or phylogeny. Section 3 has nine chapters focusing on vegetation history, regional vegetation, and how these have influenced current species organizations and distributions. Regions treated include Russia, China, the USA, Mexico and Mediterranean areas. Lastly, Section 4 addresses aspects of vegetation change and plant ecology. Every chapter in this unique book offers original ideas on the topic of vegetation, as the authors are assembled from a world-wide population of leading vegetational ecologists, whose interests range from local communities to global theoretical questions.
Biomes of the Southern Hemisphere
Biomes of the Southern Hemisphere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biomes of the Southern Hemisphere write by Ladislav Mucina. This book was released on 2023-07-04. Biomes of the Southern Hemisphere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first comprehensive and critical evaluation of the biome (large-scale, functional biotic communities) patterns in the Southern Hemisphere. Revising the Heinrich Walter's zonobiome system for the Southern Hemisphere appeared as necessary because of the bioclimatic imbalance between the Hemispheres. This revision resulted in formulation of a new zonobiome system, considering the geographic peculiarities of both Hemispheres, hence creating a new, powerful tool of global nature-resource survey and conservation. The system has a potential to attract the interest of the global climate modeling community as the concept of biome (and associated hierarchical system) has a strong functional focus. All zonal biomes of the Southern Hemisphere are featured, and the major challenges we face in understanding their origins, structure, and functioning are discussed. The book contains a wealth of original data resulting from collation of bioclimatic data and vegetation mapping.
The Vascular Plant Communities of the Retezat National Park (Southern Carpathians)
The Vascular Plant Communities of the Retezat National Park (Southern Carpathians) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vascular Plant Communities of the Retezat National Park (Southern Carpathians) write by Gheorghe Coldea. This book was released on 2022-09-26. The Vascular Plant Communities of the Retezat National Park (Southern Carpathians) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The floristic studies carried out during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Retezat Massif identified 1,152 plant species and 104 subspecies within the Cormobionta sub-regnum. Of these, about 12% are endemic Carpathian and Dacian-Balkan taxa that induce a regional specificity to the hosting communities. The phytocoenological research led to the description of 67 plant associations, grouped in 28 alliances, 19 orders and 13 vegetation classes. These classes are: Asplenietea trichomanis, Thlaspietea rotundifolii, Salicetea herbaceae, Montio-Cardaminetea, Scheuchzerio-Caricetea fuscae, Oxycocco-Sphagnetea, Molinio-Arrhenatheretea, Caricetea curvulae, Loisleurio-Vaccinietea, Elyno-Seslerietea, Mulgedio-Aconitetea, Carpino-Fagetea and Vaccinio-Piceetea. The following plant associations herein described are new syntaxa: Phyteumo confusi-Junicetum trifidi, Salici kitaibelianae-Dryadetum octopetalae and Aconito taurici-Rumicetum alpine. For the protection of some rare plant species and vulnerable plant associations, two natural reserves are proposed to be created within the “Limestone Retezat” area.
