Mountain ecosystems [electronic resource] : studies in treeline ecology / Gabriele Broll, Beate Keplin, (eds.).

Published:: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2005]
Copyright Date:: ©2005
Physical Description:: 1 volume
Additional Creators:: Broll, Gabriele, Keplin, Beate, and SpringerLink (Online service)

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Part 1 -- Guideline for Describing Soil Profiles in Mountain Ecosystems / Gabriele Broll, Bettina Hiller, Frank Bednorz, Gerald Muller, Thomas Reineke -- Peripheral Plant Population Survival in Polar Regions / Robert Crawford -- Climate Change and High Mountain Vegetation Shifts / Gian-Reto Walther, Sascha Beissner, Richard Pott -- Part 2 -- Regeneration of Whitebark Pine in the Timberline Ecotone of the Beartooth Plateau, U.S.A.: Spatial Distribution and Responsible Agents / Sabine Mellmann-Brown -- Structure and the Composition of Species in Timberline Ecotones of the Southern Andes / William Pollmann, Renate Hildebrand -- Pocket Gopher -- Actor under the Stage. Studies on Niwot Ridge, Colorado Front Range, U.S.A. / Hans-Uwe Schutz -- The Impact of Seed Dispersal by Clark's Nutcracker on Whitebark Pine: Multi-scale Perspective on a High Mountain Mutualism / Diana Tomback -- Part 3 -- Humus Forms and Reforestation of an Abandoned Pasture at the Alpine Timberline (Upper Engadine, Central Alps, Switzerland) / Bettina Hiller, Andreas Muterthies -- A Discontinuous Tree-ring Record AD 320-1994 From Dividalen, Norway: Inferences on Climate and Treeline History / Andreas Kirchhefer -- Woodland Recolonisation and Postagricultural Development in Italy / Pietro Piussi -- Part 4 -- Isolated Mountain Forests in Central Asian Deserts: A Case Study from the Govi Altay, Mongolia / Jan Cermak, Lars Opgenoorth, Georg Miehe -- The Upper Timberline in the Himalayas, Hindu Kush and Karakorum: a Review of Geographical and Ecological Aspects / Udo Schickhoff

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-354).

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Electronic reproduction. Berlin : Springer, 2005. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Available via SpringerLink.

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