Ecological Studies

Structure, Functioning, and Dynamics of a Savanna Ecosystem

By: Luc Abbadie (Editor), Jaques Gignoux (Editor), Xavier Roux (Editor)

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Hardcover | 20 March 2006 | Edition Number 5

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Known as "a dream place for scientists" the Lamto savannas, located just on the edge of the Cote d'Ivoire rain forests, are one of the only savannas in the world where ongoing ecological research has endured for over forty years. Drawing from and synthesizing this abundance of research, the book examines the structure, function, and dynamics of the Lamto humid savanna. Beginning with the history of the Lamto ecology station, proceeding on to an overview of the major enivronmental conditions of the site, and specifically examining the integrative view of energy and nutrient fluxes relative to the dynamics of the region's vegetation, this long and exacting work is as unique and treasured as Lamto itself.

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"This new volume is good news for savanna ecologists. It is a summary and integration of some four decades of ecological research in the savanna of Lamto in Ivory Coast, West Africa. ... a most interesting book that is of great value to savanna ecologists. ... This is a very valuable and interesting book which I certainly recommend to all savanna ecologists, and I congratulate the authors with their achievement." (Marinus J. A. Werger, Phytocoenologia, Vol. 38 (1-2), August, 2008)

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History of the Lamto ecology station and ecological studies at Lamto	p. 1
Geology, landform, and soils	p. 15
Climate	p. 25
Environmental constraints of living organisms	p. 45
Vegetation	p. 63
Soil-plant-atmosphere exchanges	p. 77
Biomass cycle and primary production	p. 115
Tree/grass interactions	p. 139
Modeling the relationships between vegetation structure and functioning, and modeling Savanna functioning from plot to region	p. 163
Modification of the Savanna functioning by herbivores	p. 185
Origin, distribution, and composition of soil organic matter	p. 201
Soil carbon and organic matter dynamics	p. 219
Perturbations of soil carbon dynamics by soil fauna	p. 235
Nitrogen inputs to the outputs from the soil-plant system	p. 255
Nitrogen dynamics in the soil-plant system	p. 277
Role of soil fauna in nitrogen cycling	p. 299
Spatial pattern, dynamics, and reproductive biology of the grass community	p. 315
Structure, long-term dynamics, and demography of the tree community	p. 335
Modeling tree and grass dynamics : from demographic to spatially explicit models	p. 365
A synthetic overview of Lamto Savanna ecology : importance of structure-functioning-dynamics relationships	p. 381
Perspectives : from the Lamto experience to critical issues of Savanna ecology research	p. 393
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