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Warm-Temperate Deciduous Forests around the Northern Hemisphere

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Editors:
  1. Elgene O. Box

    1. Geography Department, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

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  2. Kazue Fujiwara

    1. Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

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  • Maximizes reader insights into deciduous (summergreen) forests as a natural forest type for the warm-temperate zone
  • Clarifies the differences between Northern Hemisphere deciduous forests and those in other large regions such as East Asia, southern Europe and eastern North America
  • Provides quantitative systematization and mapping of temperate zonal climates
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Geobotany Studies (GEOBOT)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Why Warm-Temperate Deciduous Forests?

    • Elgene O. Box, Kazue Fujiwara
    Pages 1-5

  3. Warm-Temperate Deciduous Forests: Concept and Global Overview

    • Elgene O. Box, Kazue Fujiwara
    Pages 7-26

  4. Character of Warm-Temperate Quercus Forests in Asia

    • Kazue Fujiwara, Atsuko Harada
    Pages 27-80

  5. Phytosociological Study of Quercus variabilis Forest in Warm-Temperate China

    • Tang Qian, Kazue Fujiwara, You Hai-Mei
    Pages 81-96

  6. Warm-Temperate Forests of Central Portugal: A Mosaic of Syntaxa

    • José Carlos Costa, Tiago Monteiro-Henriques, Pedro Bingre, Dalila Espírito-Santo
    Pages 97-117

  7. Marcescent Forests of the Iberian Peninsula: Floristic and Climatic Characterization

    • Itziar García-Mijangos, Juan Antonio Campos, Idoia Biurrun, Mercedes Herrera, Javier Loidi
    Pages 119-138

  8. Downy-Oak Woods of Italy: Phytogeographical Remarks on a Controversial Taxonomic and Ecologic Issue

    • Riccardo Guarino, Giuseppe Bazan, Bruno Paura
    Pages 139-151

  9. The Status of Quercus pubescens Willd. in Europe

    • Camilla Wellstein, Francesco Spada
    Pages 153-163

  10. On the Potential of Quercus pubescens Willd. and Other Species of Quercus in the Camerino Syncline (Central Italy)

    • Kevin Cianfaglione
    Pages 165-174

  11. Chorology and Phytosociology of Sessile Oak [Quercus petraea (Mattuschka) Liebl.] in Trentino-Alto Adige (East-Central Alps) of Northern Italy

    • Franco Pedrotti
    Pages 175-180

  12. Quercus suber Distribution Revisited

    • Bartolomeo Schirone, Francesco Spada, Marco Cosimo Simeone, Federico Vessella
    Pages 181-212

  13. Phenorhythms and Forest Refugia

    • Bartolomeo Schirone, Francesco Spada, Gianluca Piovesan, Marco Cosimo Simeone
    Pages 213-223

  14. Warm-Temperate Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America

    • Elgene O. Box
    Pages 225-255

  15. Deciduous Woodlands in Mediterranean California

    • Mark A. Blumler
    Pages 257-266

  16. Deciduous Woodlands in the Near Eastern Fertile Crescent, and a Comparison with California

    • Mark A. Blumler, Joel C. Plummer
    Pages 267-276

  17. Quantitative Delimitation of Warm-Temperate Deciduous Forest Areas

    • Elgene O. Box
    Pages 277-284

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 285-292
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About this book

Warm-temperate deciduous forests are "southern", mainly oak-dominated deciduous forests, as found over the warmer southern parts of the temperate deciduous forest regions of East Asia, Europe and eastern North America. Climatic analysis has shown that these forests extend from typical temperate climates to well into the warm-temperate zone, in areas where winters are a bit too cold for the ‘zonal’ evergreen broad-leaved forests normally expected in that climatic zone. This book is the first to recognize and describe these southern deciduous forests as an alternative to the evergreen forests of the warm-temperate zone. This warm-temperate zone will become more important under global warming, since it represents the contested transition between deciduous and evergreen forests and between tropical and temperate floristic elements. This book is dedicated to the memory of Tatsuō Kira, the imaginative Japanese ecologist who first noticed and described this general zonation exception and who proposed the name warm-temperate deciduous forest.

Reviews

“This edited volume … is comprised of 16 diverse chapters focused on ecological patterns and vegetation processes of warm-temperate forest and woodland ecosystems from around the Northern Hemisphere. … the book will mostly appeal to those with a related research interest; however, for those individuals, this book will be highly valuable. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (D. Goldblum, Choice, Vol. 52 (12), August, 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Geography Department, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Elgene O. Box

  • Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

    Kazue Fujiwara

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Warm-Temperate Deciduous Forests around the Northern Hemisphere

  • Editors: Elgene O. Box, Kazue Fujiwara

  • Series Title: Geobotany Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01261-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01260-5Published: 20 January 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34844-5Published: 14 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01261-2Published: 29 December 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2198-2562

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-2570

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 292

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Biogeosciences, Physical Geography, Plant Ecology, Plant Sciences

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