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Vegetationskundliche Untersuchungen an südchilenischen Vulkanen
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ISBN: 3427762017 Year: 1985 Volume: vol 70 Publisher: Bonn : In Kommission bei F. Dümmler,


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Forest decline and atmospheric deposition effects in the French mountains.
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ISBN: 3540588744 3642795374 3642795358 9783540588740 Year: 1995 Publisher: Berlin : Springer,

Tropical alpine environments : plant form and function.
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ISBN: 052142089X 9780521420891 9780511551475 9780521054119 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

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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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