Plants at the Margin: Ecological Limits and Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9780521623094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 494 str.

R M M Crawford

Opis

Beautifully illustrated, thoughtful study of the effects of climate change on plants in marginal areas.

Recenzje

'Crawford provides a clear and concise summary of the literature on this broad topic, skillfully synthesizing progress in a diversity of research fields to address two specific issues - how vegetation establishes and survives in areas where environmental conditions are outside the physiological tolerances of most plant species, and how changing environmental conditions might affect this vegetation. … All chapters are lavishly illustrated and … the numerous photographs are an excellent complement to the text. … I can highly recommend this book to all researchers with an interest in the biological impacts of climate change and/or the ecology of abiotically stressful environments.' Annals of Botany Company

Spis treści

1. Recognizing margins; 2. Biodiversity in marginal areas; 3. Resource acquisition in marginal habitats; 4. Reproduction at the periphery; 5. Arctic and sub-Arctic treelines and the tundra taiga interface; 6. Plant survival in a warmer Arctic; 7. Land-plants at coastal margins; 8. Survival at the water's edge; 9. Woody plants at the margin; 10. Plants at high altitudes; 11. Man at the margins; 12. Summary and conclusions.