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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