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Vegetation Structure and Function at Multiple Spatial, Temporal and Conceptual Scales

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  • First book-length treatment of the subject
  • Full range of objectives, scales, regions and vegetation types, from global to local scale, Northern and Southern Hemispheres, rainforests to steppe and dry scrub, including theoretical systems, regional analyses and syntheses, landscape-scale studies, perspectives on commonly used and novel methodologies and conservation applications
  • Reviews and discussions of current hot topics, including debated paradigms, methodologies and applications
  • Will include a subject index (and taxonomic index), unlike most such books
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Geobotany Studies (GEOBOT)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xl
  2. Global Scale

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. World Bioclimatic Zonation

      • Elgene O. Box
      Pages 3-52
  3. Regional Vegetation Analysis and Synthesis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
    2. Evergreen Broad-Leaved Forest of East Asia

      • Song Yong-Chang, Da Liang-Jun
      Pages 101-128
    3. Ecology of Relict Tertiary Deciduous Trees in Subtropical China

      • Shang Kan-Kan, Song Kun, Da Liang-Jun
      Pages 149-167
    4. Classification of Lower Montane Evergreen Forests in Southern India and Sri Lanka

      • A. M. Greller, D. S. A. Wijesundara, H. M. Jayasuriya
      Pages 169-213
    5. Dynamics of the Hawaiian Rainforest at Multiple Scales

      • Dieter Mueller-Dombois, James D. Jacobi
      Pages 215-228
    6. On the Steppes and Shrub Thickets in Onon Dahuria

      • Irina Safronova, Ekaterina Golovina
      Pages 229-240
    7. Marcescent Quercus pyrenaica Forest on the Iberian Peninsula

      • Beatriz Vilches de la Serna, Daniel Sánchez-Mata, Rosario G. Gavilán
      Pages 257-283
    8. Mediterranean Ultramafic (Serpentine) Chaparrals of California (USA): A Geobotanical Overview

      • Daniel Sánchez-Mata, María Pilar Rodríguez-Rojo
      Pages 285-312

About this book

This commemorative volume of invited papers in vegetation science covers a full range of topics, objectives, methods and applications, including conservation and management tasks. These require study at different temporal and spatial scales, often simultaneously. Methodology is important in science, since it responds to particular questions and raises others. It is also closely related to the scale of investigation. Chapters in this book illustrate this interdependence, even in basic tasks such as vegetation sampling and description, measurements and mapping. Individual chapters present globally applicable systems, regional syntheses and local analyses and applications, plus conceptual methodologies, including currently debated hot topics. Vegetation types treated include tropical rainforests, temperate forests, dry steppes and scrub and local turf, sedge and moss communities. There are also chapters on re-vegetation, woodlot management, ecology of an invasive species, and trajectory planning in conservation. This book will be useful to both students and practitioners, for its reviews and examples and as a potential textbook suitable for graduate-level courses and seminars.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Elgene Owen Box

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Vegetation Structure and Function at Multiple Spatial, Temporal and Conceptual Scales

  • Editors: Elgene Owen Box

  • Series Title: Geobotany Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21452-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21451-1Published: 29 March 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79343-6Published: 19 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21452-8Published: 17 March 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2198-2562

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-2570

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XL, 578

  • Number of Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations, 111 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Biogeosciences, Plant Ecology, Plant Sciences

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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