[PDF] Alpine Plants eBook

Author : Jim Pojar
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781551058924

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These experienced and highly respected nature writers have produced an outstanding field guide to the plants that grow above the tree line, at the higher elevations of the Rockies and Cascades, and other ranges of the Western Cordillera of North America. Here is comprehensive information on almost 1,200 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and more, with over 2,000 illustrations: color photos, line drawings and range maps.

Author : Graham Nicholls
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781417558490

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North America is replete with beautiful aplines, and this guide is equally useful to the traveler or the gardener for its identification, propagation, and cultivation information.

Author : Christian Körner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 364298018X

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Generations of plant scientists have been fascinated by alpine plant lifean ecosystem that experiences dramatic climatic gradients over a very short distance. This comprehensive book examines a wide range of topics including alpine climate and soils, plant distribution and the treeline phenomenon, plant stress and development, global change at high elevation, and the human impact on alpine vegetation. Geographically, the book covers all parts of the world including the tropics.

Author : Will Ingwersen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Plants
ISBN :

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"An alphabetical description of a large range of alpine plants, in clear and careful detail, with notes on their origins, natural habitat and, where appropriate, their particular horticultural requirements." --Publisher description.

Author : Jim Jermyn
Publisher : Timber Pr
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 22,96 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780881927344

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With this reference, gardeners can successfully replicate alpine plants' native conditions, allowing them to grow such choice alpines as gentians, daphnes, and Dianthus. Dramatic photographs and descriptions take readers through the Pyrenees, Alps, Balkans, and Carpathians to capture the charms of these unique mountain plants.

Author : Fritz Hans Schweingruber
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030539768

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This is the first book to provide comprehensive information on the anatomy and ecology of arctic and alpine plants from cold sites around the globe, including representative species from Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Himalaya, Japan, Argentina, Ecuador and Western USA. It presents the study sites, including characteristic landscape and vegetation photographs. It also discusses species distribution, habitat preferences and features plant pictures, particularly focusing on the specific stem anatomical features, which differ in many cases from temperate zone herbs. Furthermore, each plant is characterized according to a newly constructed codification system. Based on the first author’s 20-years of field research, a close collaboration with numerous botanical gardens, and the vast ecological experience of the other authors, the book presents approximately 350 species. The general layout is comparable to Doležal et al’s 2018 book Anatomy, Age and Ecology of High Mountain Plants in Ladakh, the Western Himalaya.

Author : Christian Körner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030595382

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This book is a completely revised, substantially extended treatment of the physical and biological factors that drive life in high mountains. The book covers the characteristics of alpine plant life, alpine climate and soils, life under snow, stress tolerance, treeline ecology, plant water, carbon, and nutrient relations, plant growth and productivity, developmental processes, and two largely novel chapters on alpine plant reproduction and global change biology. The book explains why the topography driven exposure of plants to dramatic micro-climatic gradients over very short distances causes alpine biodiversity to be particularly robust against climatic change. Geographically, this book draws on examples from all parts of the world, including the tropics. This book is complemented with novel evidence and insight that emerged over the last 17 years of alpine plant research. The number of figures – mostly in color – nearly doubled, with many photographs providing a vivid impression of alpine plant life worldwide. Christian Körner was born in 1949 in Austria, received his academic education at the University of Innsbruck, and was full professor of Botany at the University of Basel from 1989 to 2014. As emeritus Professor he is continuing alpine plant research in the Swiss Alps.

Author : Russell K. Monson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461475002

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In this book, plant biology is considered from the perspective of plants and their surrounding environment, including both biotic and abiotic interactions. The intended audience is undergraduate students in the middle or final phases of their programs of study. Topics are developed to provide a rudimentary understanding of how plant-environment interactions span multiple spatiotemporal scales, and how this rudimentary knowledge can be applied to understand the causes of ecosystem vulnerabilities in the face of global climate change and expansion of natural resource use by human societies. In all chapters connections are made from smaller to larger scales of ecological organization, providing a foundation for understanding plant ecology. Where relevant, environmental threats to ecological systems are identified and future research needs are discussed. As future generations take on the responsibility for managing ecosystem goods and services, one of the most effective resources that can be passed on is accumulated knowledge of how organisms, populations, species, communities and ecosystems function and interact across scales of organization. This book is intended to provide some of that knowledge, and hopefully provide those generations with the ability to avoid some of the catastrophic environmental mistakes that prior generations have made.

Author : Lori Chips
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1604698683

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“A complete guide to designing, making and planting hypertufa troughs.”—North American Rock Garden Society Hypertufa containers—also known as troughs—are rustic, striking, versatile, and perfect for small, Alpine plants. A mix of cement, perlite, peat, and water, they are simple and affordable to make at home. In Hypertufa Containers, Lori Chips details everything you need to know to make your own troughs and successfully garden in them. This hardworking book includes step-by-step instructions and color photography for making hypertufa containers in a variety of shapes and sizes. Plant portraits include growing and cultivation information, along with potting tips.

Author : George Wuerthner
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780811725989

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Has everything visitors want to know about these parks, including their histories, plant and animal life, and conservation issues. With field guide, life lists, and stunning colour photos.