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Springer Mountain Ecosystems Studies In Treeline Ecology 2005 Edition by Gabriele Broll Beate Keplin
This volume focuses on interaction between vegetation relief climate soil and fauna in the treeline ecotone and the effects of climate change and land use in North America and Europe. Table of contents : Mountains Ecosystems Studies in Treeline Ecology General Aspects of Vegetation and Soils in Cold Environments.- Guideline for Describing Soil Profiles in Mountain Ecosystems.- Peripheral Plant Population Survival in Polar Regions.- Climate Change and High Mountain Vegetation Shifts.- Mountain Ecosystems Studies in Treeline Ecology Regional Treeline Studies in America.- Regeneration of Whitebark Pine in the Timberline Ecotone of the Beartooth Plateau U.S.A.: Spatial Distribution and Responsible Agents.- Structure and the Composition of Species in Timberline Ecotones of the Southern Andes.- Pocket Gopher - Actor under the Stage. Studies on Niwot Ridge Colorado Front Range U.S.A..- The Impact of Seed Dispersal by Clark's Nutcracker on Whitebark Pine: Multi-scale Perspective on a High Mountain Mutualism.- Mountain Ecosystems Studies in Treeline Ecology Regional Treeline Studies in Europe.- Humus Forms and Reforestation of an Abandoned Pasture at the Alpine Timberline (Upper Engadine Central Alps Switzerland).- A Discontinuous Tree-ring Record AD 320-1994 From Dividalen Norway: Inferences on Climate and Treeline History.- Woodland Recolonisation and Postagricultural Development in Italy.- Mountain Ecosystems Studies in Treeline Ecology Regional Treeline Studies in Asia.- Isolated Mountain Forests in Central Asian Deserts: A Case Study from the Govi Altay Mongolia.- The Upper Timberline in the Himalayas Hindu Kush and Karakorum: a Review of Geographical and Ecological Aspects.