Book ID: 75001
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                
                                                                    
Körner, Christian
                                                                    
                                                                
                                                            
                                                                Alpine Plant Life. Functional Plant Ecology of  High Mountain Ecosystems. 2nd ed. 2014. illus. XI, 349 p. Paper bd.
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                    Treats a wide range of topics: alpine climate and soils, plant distribution and the tree - line phenomenon, physiological ecology of water-. nutritional- and carbon relations of alpine plants, plant stress and plant development, biomass production, aspects of reproductive biology, and human impacts on alpine vegetation. Covers geographically all parts of the world including the tropics. - This is  soft cover reprint of the 2003 edition. Out of print. Few copies available only.