Igapó (Black-water flooded forests) of the Amazon Basin

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Myster, Randall W. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Ecology .; Ecosystems.; Forestry.; Climate change.; Biodiversity.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Terrestial Ecology.; Climate Change.; Community & Population Ecology.

Igapó forests are a common part of the Amazon whose ecosystems are critical to our shared human future. The introduction addresses the structure, function and dynamics of igapó forests in the Amazon basin, focusing on their uniqueness due to their high level of complexity defined as the many ways...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. Randall W. Myster
• Section I Igapó over space and time
• Section II Water and light
• Section III Soil and the carbon cycle
• Section IV Litter, fungi and invertebrates
• Section V Vertebrates.-Section VI Plants
• Section VII Human impacts and management.