Alpine Treelines

Author: Christian Körner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3034803966
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
Alpine treelines mark the low-temperature limit of tree growth and occur in mountains world-wide. Presenting a companion to his book Alpine Plant Life, Christian Körner provides a global synthesis of the treeline phenomenon from sub-arctic to equatorial latitudes and a functional explanation based on the biology of trees. The comprehensive text approaches the subject in a multi-disciplinary way by exploring forest patterns at the edge of tree life, tree morphology, anatomy, climatology and, based on this, modelling treeline position, describing reproduction and population processes, development, phenology, evolutionary aspects, as well as summarizing evidence on the physiology of carbon, water and nutrient relations, and stress physiology. It closes with an account on treelines in the past (palaeo-ecology) and a section on global change effects on treelines, now and in the future. With more than 100 illustrations, many of them in colour, the book shows alpine treelines from around the globe and offers a wealth of scientific information in the form of diagrams and tables.

Above the Treeline

Author: Alan Francis Mark
Publisher: Craig Potton Publishing
ISBN: 9781877517761
Category : Mountain animals
Languages : en
Pages : 472

Book Description
New Zealand's alpine environment is challenging, not only for the humans who explore it but for the plants and animals that inhabit it. The extremes of temperature, short summers and high rates of erosion make for an uncertain environment, and the flora and fauna have evolved and adapted to it in interesting ways. Above the Treeline: A nature guide to the New Zealand mountains is a guide to the natural history of these fascinating ecosystems. It is the first book to be published that brings together the range of flora and fauna that inhabit the alpine environment. As well as our unique alpine plants, which constitute the majority of the book, this guide includes birds; frogs and lizards; butterflies, moths, grasshoppers, beetles and other invertebrates; and mosses and lichens. An informative introduction is followed by descriptions of more than 850 species, illustrated by approximately 1000 colour photographs. Written by eminent botanist and conservationist Sir Alan Mark, . . .

Mountain Ecosystems

Author: Gabriele Broll
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540243250
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
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.

City of Thorns

Author: Ben Rawlence
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250067634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
"Originally published in Great Britain by Portobello Books."

Lichens Above Treeline

Author: Ralph Pope
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584654025
Category : Licens
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The perfect hiker's companion for any naturalist interested in the lichens of the northeastern mountaintops

The Meaning of Trees

Author: Fred Hageneder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Presents full-color illustrated photographs that describes the botany, history, mythology, and folklore of some of the world's most unique trees including California's giant redwood.

Robert Adams

Author: Robert Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781564660688
Category : Eden (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Eden, Robert Adam's earliest body of work from 1968, is offered here in an elegant limited edition, featuring tritone images expertly printed from film made directly from the original photographs. This series of seventeen black and white photographs made in and around an off-ramp truck stop cafe in Colorado was among the first to capture the new themes brought about by America's changing economical, environmental, and visual terrain. An extraordinary edition, this work is a must for all photography collections.

Tree Line

Author: Judy Halebsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936970254
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Poetry. "Robert Frost believed a poem should begin in delight and end in wisdom, but in TREE LINE, Judy Halebsky proves a poet never has to choose between the two her poems begin in both and end in both. Smart, sexy, thoughtful, and beautiful, Halebsky's lyrics are a masterful marriage of tradition and innovation. This remarkable book loves many things language and landscape to be sure but most of all, it loves this world and how we make our way in it." Dean Rader"

The Treeline

Author: Ben Rawlence
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250270243
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
Winner of the 2023 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism "Original and readable." ―Financial Times' Best Environmental Books of 2022 "Superb, inspiring." ―Winner, National Academies of Science Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications “Illuminating.” —Silver Medalist, National Outdoor Book Awards Longlisted for the American Library Association's 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist, 2023 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist, 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the “lung” at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, Canada to Sweden to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest species survive at these latitudes including the ice-loving Dahurian larch of Siberia, the antiseptic Spruce that purifies our atmosphere, the Downy birch conquering Scandinavia, the healing Balsam poplar that Native Americans use as a cure-all and the noble Scots Pine that lives longer when surrounded by its family. It is a journey of wonder and awe at the incredible creativity and resilience of these species and the mysterious workings of the forest upon which we rely for the air we breathe. Blending reportage with the latest science, The Treeline is a story of what might soon be the last forest left and what that means for the future of all life on earth.

Moving Beyond Treeline

Author: Larry Beck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882708017
Category : Canoes and canoeing
Languages : en
Pages : 111

Book Description