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EUC Central Europe --- Caucasus --- alpine vegetation --- flowers --- coloured photographs

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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.

Alpine ecology --- Bergen [Ecologie van de ] --- Ecologie des montagnes --- Ecologie van de bergen --- Montagnes [Ecologie des ] --- Mountain ecology --- Mountain plants --- 581.524.445 --- 581.524.444 --- 581.52 --- 581.1 --- Alpine flora --- Alpine plants --- Alpine region plants --- Alpine vegetation --- Alpines (Plants) --- High altitude plants --- High altitude vegetation --- Montane plants --- Mountain flora --- Mountain vegetation --- Mountain wildlife --- Sub-alpine plants --- Sub-alpine vegetation --- Subalpine plants --- Subalpine vegetation --- Plants --- Ecophysiology --- Tropics --- Alpine regions --- Environment and habitat of plants --- Plant physiology --- 581.1 Plant physiology --- 581.52 Environment and habitat of plants --- 581.524.444 Alpine regions --- 581.524.445 Tropics --- Botany --- Morphology --- Physiology --- Morphogenesis --- Evolution --- Adaptation

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Grasses --- Herbs --- Mountain plants. --- Restoration ecology. --- Seeds --- 581.524.444 --- 581.526.45 --- 631.53.02 --- 582.542.1 --- 582.736 --- Alpine regions --- Prairie formations --- Seed production. Collection, storage and treatment of seeds --- Gramineae. Grasses. Bamboos. Reeds. Phragmites --- Leguminosae. Legumes. Pulses. Laburnum. Fabaceae --- 582.736 Leguminosae. Legumes. Pulses. Laburnum. Fabaceae --- 582.542.1 Gramineae. Grasses. Bamboos. Reeds. Phragmites --- 631.53.02 Seed production. Collection, storage and treatment of seeds --- 581.526.45 Prairie formations --- 581.524.444 Alpine regions --- Mountain plants --- Restoration ecology --- Ecological restoration --- Ecosystem restoration --- Rehabilitation ecology --- Restoration of ecosystems --- Applied ecology --- Alpine flora --- Alpine plants --- Alpine region plants --- Alpine vegetation --- Alpines (Plants) --- High altitude plants --- High altitude vegetation --- Montane plants --- Mountain flora --- Mountain vegetation --- Mountain wildlife --- Sub-alpine plants --- Sub-alpine vegetation --- Subalpine plants --- Subalpine vegetation --- Plants --- Plants, Useful --- Forbs --- Agrostology --- Graminaceae --- Gramineae --- Grass family (Plants) --- Herbage --- Poaceae --- Cyperales --- Forage plants --- Grasslands --- Hay --- Lawns --- Meadows --- Pastures --- Grasses - Alpine regions. --- Herbs - Alpine regions. --- Grasses - Seeds - Alpine regions. --- Herbs - Seeds - Alpine regions.

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This aesthetically unique book combines ecological, morphological and anatomical, as well as phylogenetic studies on plant material in a largely unexplored dry mountain region above the timberline. It offers the first comparative analysis of hundreds of plants - annuals, perennial herbs and dwarf shrubs - in an area of 87,000 km2 at altitudes from 2600 to 6150 m above sea level in the Western Himalaya. Characteristic landscape pictures of all major vegetation types and maps show at which locations and altitudes the individual species of vascular plants are distributed, while macroscopic plant pictures and plant age are related to high-quality micro-sections and micro-photographs. The anatomical features of 345 dicotyledons were characterized using the published coding systems and those of 155 monocotyledones were characterized on the basis of a newly developed key. The number of annual rings and anatomical features of the xylem and phloem of dicots are compared and related to different ecological conditions within this extremely dry and cold environment. The ecological and anatomical characterization is used to create a phylogenetic tree based on nucleotide sequences, and indicates which features are genetically stable and which ones are modified by environmental factors. The book appeals to scientists in the fields of plant taxonomy, morphology, anatomy and ecology. .

Life sciences. --- Ecosystems. --- Plant ecology. --- Plant anatomy. --- Plant development. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. --- Plant Anatomy/Development. --- Plant Ecology. --- Mountain plants --- Alpine flora --- Alpine plants --- Alpine region plants --- Alpine vegetation --- Alpines (Plants) --- High altitude plants --- High altitude vegetation --- Montane plants --- Mountain flora --- Mountain vegetation --- Mountain wildlife --- Sub-alpine plants --- Sub-alpine vegetation --- Subalpine plants --- Subalpine vegetation --- Plants --- Ecology --- Endangered ecosystems. --- Threatened ecosystems --- Biotic communities --- Nature conservation --- Botany --- Plant structure --- Structural botany --- Vegetable anatomy --- Anatomy --- Structure --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Plant systematics. --- Plant taxonomy. --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Population biology --- Development of plants --- Plant development --- Developmental biology --- Growth (Plants) --- Botanical classification --- Botanical systematics --- Botanical taxonomy --- Classification --- Plant biosystematics --- Plant classification --- Plant systematics --- Plant taxonomy --- Systematic botany --- Systematics (Botany) --- Taxonomy, Plant --- Plant taxonomists --- Ontogeny --- Floristic ecology