Alpine Plant Life

Everything about Flowers & Plants

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Alpine plant life presents a unique and comprehensive treatment of plant ecology in high mountain regions of all parts of the world. This is the fully revised third edition of this successful textbook.... Show more

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Author	Christian Körner
Language	English
ISBN	9783030595401
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	500
Size	253 x 176 mm
Format	Paperback
Images	Colour images
Year published	2021

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 Körner 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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