Warm-Temperate Deciduous Forests around the Northern Hemisphere

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Box, Elgene O. (Editor), Fujiwara, Kazue (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Geobotany Studies, Basics, Methods and Case Studies,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geobiology.; Physical geography.; Plant ecology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Physical Geography.; Plant Ecology.; Plant Sciences.

Warm-temperate deciduous forests are "southern", mainly oak-dominated deciduous forests, as found over the warmer southern parts of the temperate deciduous forest regions of East Asia, Europe and eastern North America. Climatic analysis has shown that these forests extend from typical temp...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Warm-temperate Deciduous Forests: Concepts and Global Overview
• Character of Warm-temperate Forests in Asia
• Chorology and Phytosociology of Quercus petraea in Trentino-Alto Adige
• Warm-temperate Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America
• Quantitative Delimitation of Warm-temperate Deciduous Forest Areas.