Structure and Function of an Alpine Ecosystem
Niwot Ridge, Colorado
Published on 24. May 2001
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-19-511728-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a complete overview of an alpine ecosystem, based on the long-term research conducted at the Niwot Ridge LTER. There is, at present, no general book on alpine ecology. The alpine ecosystem features conditions near the limits of biological existence, and is a useful laboratory for asking more general ecological questions, because it offers large environmental change over relatively short distances. Factors such as macroclimate, microclimate, soil conditions, biota, and various biological factors change on differing scales, allowing insight into the relative contributions of the different factors on ecological outcomes.
Reviews / Votes
This is an important contribution destined to become a standard reference for alpine ecosystem research. * Mountain Research and Development * Overall, this is an important and sophisticated effort involving much data collection under sometimes extremely severe conditions for both observers and instruments. Many of the chapters could stand alone as significant contributions in their own disciplines; together they render this one of the most impressive syntheses available of an alpine ecosystem. * Mountain Research and Development *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
27 halftones, numerous maps, tables and figures
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
693 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-511728-8 (9780195117288)
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William D. Bowman | Timothy R. Seastedt
Structure and Function of an Alpine Ecosystem
Niwot Ridge, Colorado
E-Book
04/2001
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€97.49
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Persons
Editor
both Professors in the Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, Mountain Research Station, and Institute of Arctic and Alphine Researchboth Professors in the Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, Mountain Research Station, and Institute of Arctic and Alphine Research, University of Colorado
Content
Contributors
Foreword
1: William D. Bowman: Introduction: Historical Perspectives on Significance of Alpine Ecosystem Studies
I Physical Environment
2: David Greenland: Climate
3: herman Sievering: Atmospheric Chemistry and Deposition
4: Nel Caine: Geomorphic Systems of Green Lakes Valley
5: Mark W. Williams and Nel Caine: Hydrology and Hydrochemistry
II Ecosystem Structures
6: Marilyn D. Walker et al: The Vegetation: Hierarchical Species-Environment Relationships
7: David M. Armstrong et al: Vertebrates
8: Timothy R. Seastedt: Soils
III Ecosystem Function
9: Willaim D. Bowman and Melany C. Fisk: Primary Production
10: Russell K. Monson et al: Plant Nutrient Relations
11: Timothy R. Seastedt: Controls on Decomposition Processes in Alpine Tundra
12: Melany C. Fisk et al: Nitrogen Cycling
13: Steven K. Schmidt et al: Soil-Atmosphere Gas Exchange
14: Denise Dearing: Plant-Herbivore Interactions
IV Past and Future
15: Scott A. Elias: Paleoecology and Late Quaternary Environments of the Colorodo Rockies
16: Jeffrey M. Welker et al: Environmental Chagne and Future Directions in Alpine Research
Index
Foreword
1: William D. Bowman: Introduction: Historical Perspectives on Significance of Alpine Ecosystem Studies
I Physical Environment
2: David Greenland: Climate
3: herman Sievering: Atmospheric Chemistry and Deposition
4: Nel Caine: Geomorphic Systems of Green Lakes Valley
5: Mark W. Williams and Nel Caine: Hydrology and Hydrochemistry
II Ecosystem Structures
6: Marilyn D. Walker et al: The Vegetation: Hierarchical Species-Environment Relationships
7: David M. Armstrong et al: Vertebrates
8: Timothy R. Seastedt: Soils
III Ecosystem Function
9: Willaim D. Bowman and Melany C. Fisk: Primary Production
10: Russell K. Monson et al: Plant Nutrient Relations
11: Timothy R. Seastedt: Controls on Decomposition Processes in Alpine Tundra
12: Melany C. Fisk et al: Nitrogen Cycling
13: Steven K. Schmidt et al: Soil-Atmosphere Gas Exchange
14: Denise Dearing: Plant-Herbivore Interactions
IV Past and Future
15: Scott A. Elias: Paleoecology and Late Quaternary Environments of the Colorodo Rockies
16: Jeffrey M. Welker et al: Environmental Chagne and Future Directions in Alpine Research
Index