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Author: Lawrence James Metcalf
Publisher: Raupo
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9780790005256
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part of the Mobil Nature Series, this reference offers detailed text and coloured photographs of plants to be found in New Zealand's alpine regions.
Author: Alan Francis Mark
Publisher: Craig Potton Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781877517761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New Zealand's alpine environment is challenging, not only for the humans who explore it but for the plants and animals that inhabit it. The extremes of temperature, short summers and high rates of erosion make for an uncertain environment, and the flora and fauna have evolved and adapted to it in interesting ways. Above the Treeline: A nature guide to the New Zealand mountains is a guide to the natural history of these fascinating ecosystems. It is the first book to be published that brings together the range of flora and fauna that inhabit the alpine environment. As well as our unique alpine plants, which constitute the majority of the book, this guide includes birds; frogs and lizards; butterflies, moths, grasshoppers, beetles and other invertebrates; and mosses and lichens. An informative introduction is followed by descriptions of more than 850 species, illustrated by approximately 1000 colour photographs. Written by eminent botanist and conservationist Sir Alan Mark, . . .
Author: Lawrence James Metcalf
Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9781869661281
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new addition to New Holland's popular pocket Photographic Guide series showcases the flowers that add so much to the attractions of walking in New Zealand's alpine zone. The ideal size for slipping into a backpack when tramping, it will appeal to walkers, nature lovers, tour guides and educators, and flower photographers wishing to identify their subjects.
Author: Alan F. Mark
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780588010639
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christian Körner
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-06-27
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 3642189709
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Generations of plant scientists have been fascinated by alpine plant life - with the exposure of organisms to dramatic climatic gradients over a very short distance. This comprehensive text treats a wide range of topics: alpine climate and soils, plant distribution and the treeline phenomenon, physiological ecology of water-, nutritional- and carbon relations of alpine plants, plant stress and plant development, biomass production, and aspects of human impacts on alpine vegetation. Geographically the book covers all parts of the world including the tropics.This second edition of Alpine Plant Life gives new references, new diagrams, and extensively revised chapters.
Author: Alan Francis Mark
Publisher: Raupo
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780589010638
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Cullen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-08-11
Total Pages: 661
ISBN-13: 0521761646
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants. Designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed gardener as well as to the professional botanist. This new edition has been thoroughly reorganised and revised, bringing it into line with modern taxonomic knowledge. Although European in name, the Flora covers plants cultivated in most areas of the United States and Canada as well as in non-tropical parts of Asia and Australasia. Volume 5 completes the series, and includes many important ornamental families, such as Labiatae, Solanaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Acanthaceae, Campanulaceae, and the largest family of Dicotyledons, the Compositae.
Author: Philip W. Rundel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-09
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 052142089X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
