rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants
  name:
    name part: Lüttge, Ulrich.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2008
    edition: 2.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 458 p. online resource.
  abstract: In spite of international agreements at the political level not much has changed since the late 1980s in terms of reducing the speed of destruction of original tropical environments. However, since the publication of the first edition ten years ago, international research efforts in physiological ecology of plants in the tropics has increased enormously in quantity and quality. In some fields advances were more substantial than in others. New approaches came up in remote sensing and at the other end of the scope in some areas molecular biology was particularly developed regarding ecological performance of tropical plants, e.g. in understanding the adaptation of resurrection plants to the extreme habitat of inselbergs. The wealth of new information made it necessary to break large chapters down into smaller ones. Tropical forests which occupy about half of the entire volume of the book were now arranged in 5 chapters covering structure and function under the influence of environmental cues and including epiphytes and mangroves as part of the tropical forest complex. Savannas were now treated in two chapters. Coastal salinas have been combined with a new section on the Brazilian restingas in a chapter on coastal sand plains.
  table of contents: Large-Scale Sensing and Diagnosis in Relation to the Tropical Environment -- Tropical Forests. I. Physiognomy and Functional Structure -- Tropical Forests. II. Ecophysiological Responses to Light -- Tropical Forests. III. Ecophysiological Responses to Drought -- Tropical Forests. IV. Lianas, Hemi-Epiphytes, Epiphytes and Mistletoes -- Tropical Forests. V. Mangroves -- Ecosystems of Coastal Sand Plains -- Savannas. I. Physiognomy, Terminology and Ecotones: Why Do Savannas Exist? -- Savannas. II. The Environmental FactorsWater,Mineral Nutrients and Fire -- Inselbergs -- Páramos.
  note: by Ulrich Lüttge.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Human physiology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant science
  subject:
    topic: Botany
  subject:
    topic: Plant physiology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Plant Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Human Physiology
  classification: QK710-899
  classification: 571.2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540717935
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71793-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204155744.0
    record identifier: 978-3-540-71793-5