Overview
- Deals with a highly relevant topic: the functional diversity and ecophysiology of oaks, which is an important tree group of the Northern Hemisphere
- The first comprehensive review of the knowledge of genus Quercus
- Most of its ca. 100 figures offer new conclusions from meta-analysis of previously published data
- Addresses a wide audience including graduate students, teachers, scientists and professionals dealing with forestry, plant ecophysiology, oak biodiversity and taxonomy and Biogeography of genus Quercus
Part of the book series: Tree Physiology (TREE, volume 7)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
With more than 500 species distributed all around the Northern Hemisphere, the genus Quercus L. is a dominant element of a wide variety of habitats including temperate, tropical, subtropical and mediterranean forests and woodlands. As the fossil record reflects, oaks were usual from the Oligocene onwards, showing the high ability of the genus to colonize new and different habitats.
Such diversity and ecological amplitude makes genus Quercus an excellent framework for comparative ecophysiological studies, allowing the analysis of many mechanisms that are found in different oaks at different level (leaf or stem). The combination of several morphological and physiological attributes defines the existence of different functional types within the genus, which are characteristic of specific phytoclimates.
From a landscape perspective, oak forests and woodlands are threatened by many factors that can compromise their future: a limited regeneration, massive decline processes, mostly triggered by adverse climatic events or the competence with other broad-leaved trees and conifer species. The knowledge of all these facts can allow for a better management of the oak forests in the future.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Oaks Physiological Ecology. Exploring the Functional Diversity of Genus Quercus L.
Editors: Eustaquio Gil-Pelegrín, José Javier Peguero-Pina, Domingo Sancho-Knapik
Series Title: Tree Physiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69099-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69098-8Published: 25 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88713-5Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69099-5Published: 12 December 2017
Series ISSN: 1568-2544
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 547
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 83 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Physiology, Biodiversity, Plant Ecology, Forestry, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography