Alpine Plant Life by Christian Krner
Recent years have seen renewed interest in the fragile alpine biota. The International Year of Mountains in 2002 and numerous international programs and initiatives have contributed to this. Since nearly half of mankind depends on water supplies originating in mountain catchments, the integrity and functional signi?cance of the upland biota is a key to human welfare and will receive even more attention as water becomes an increasingly limited resource. Intact alpine vegetation, as the safeguard of the water towers of the world, is worth being well understood. This new edition of Alpine Plant Life is an update with over 100 new references, new diagrams, revised and extended chapters (particularly 7, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17) and now also offers a geographic index. My thanks go to the many careful readers of the ?rst edition for their most valuable comments, in parti- lar to Vicente I. Deltoro (Valencia) and Johanna Wagner (Innsbruck). Basel, April 2003 Christian K rner Preface to the ?rst edition One of the largest natural biological experiments, perhaps the only one replicated across all latitudes and all climatic regions, is uplift of the la- scape and exposure of organisms to dramatic climatic gradients over a very short distance, otherwise only seen over thousands ofkilometers of poleward traveling. Generations of plant scientists have been fascinated by these natural test areas, and have explored plant and ecosystem responses to alpine life conditions. Alpine Plant Life is an attempt at a synthesis.
“For me, the greatest appeal of this book is its strong anchoring in our shared cultural history of scientific research on alpine systems and its more personal, respectful attention towards alpine plants… Körner’s book provides a valuable reference that points to how we may consider modifying our interactions to support the long-term integrity of life at the edges of the earth. … it provides motivation and tools for improving our responsible stewardship of life beyond the treeline.” (Jill Johnstone,Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 41 (4), 2021)
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783030595371 |
| ISBN 10 | 3030595374 |
| Titel | Alpine Plant Life |
| Autor | Christian Körner |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2021-04-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 500 |
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