Tropical Alpine Environments : Plant Form and Function

Name: Tropical Alpine Environments
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521054119
Price: 8450 KES
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ISBN: 9780521054119

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0521054117

ISBN-13 9780521054119

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 21st, 2008

Print length 392 Pages

Weight 551 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 15.70 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Botany and plant sciences Plant ecology

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Plants growing above the tree-line in the tropics have evolved in distinct ways to cope with the hazards of cold, drought and fire. This book examines the unique form, physiology and function of these fascinating plants, and will appeal to all those with an interest in tropical vegetation and plant physiology.

Plants growing in tropical alpine environments (at altitudes above the closed canopy forest and below the limit of plant life) have evolved distinct forms to cope with a hostile environment characterized by cold, drought and fire. Unlike temperate alpine environments, where there are distinct seasons of favourable and unfavourable conditions for growth, tropical alpine habitats present summer conditions every day and winter conditions every night. Using examples from all over the tropics, this fascinating account reviews, for the first time, the unique form and functional relationships of tropical alpine plants examining both their physiological ecology and population biology. It will appeal to anyone interested in tropical vegetation and plant physiological adaptations to hostile environment, as well as to researchers in biogeography and ecology.

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