Tropical Alpine Environments

Plant Form and Function

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Hardcover | 31 October 1994

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Plants growing in tropical alpine environments (at altitudes above the closed canopy forest and below the limit of plant life) have evolved distinct forms to cope with a hostile environment characterized by cold, drought and fire. Unlike temperate alpine environments, where there are distinct seasons of favourable and unfavourable conditions for growth, tropical alpine habitats present summer conditions every day and winter conditions every night. Using examples from all over the tropics, this fascinating account reviews, for the first time, the unique form and functional relationships of tropical alpine plants examining both their physiological ecology and population biology. It will appeal to anyone interested in tropical vegetation and plant physiological adaptations to hostile environment, as well as to researchers in biogeography and ecology.

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'All in all, I liked this book very much. It covers a fascinating subject in a concise and readable style. It is a significant and useful contribution to any tropical alpine specialist's bookshelf, and deserves a general readership amongst curious plant ecologists and students.' Mountain Research and Development '... I feel sure that the teacher, researcher, specialist and general reader will find this well-presented volume a great stimulus to a new generation of young biologists who are just about to discover ecology, the tropics and high mountains.' Annal of Botany

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List of contributors
Preface
Introduction to tropical alpine vegetation
Tropical alpine climates
Pàramo microclimate and leaf thermal balance of Andean giant rosette plants
Comparative water relations of tropical alpine plants
Cold tolerance in tropical alpine plants
Anatomy of tropical alpine plants
Environmental biology of a tropical treeline species, polylepis sericea
Morphological and physiological radiation in pàramo draba
Sediment-based carbon nutrition in tropical alpine isoetes
Functional significance of inflorescence pubescence in tropical alpine species of Puya
Turnover and conservation of nutrients in the pachycaul senecio keniodendron
Soil nutrient dynamics in East African alpine ecosystems
An overview of the reproductive biology of espeletia (Asteraceae) in the Venezuelan Andes
Population biology of Mount Kenya lobelias
Population biology of Senecio kenodendron (Asteraceae), an Afroalpine giant rosette plant
Population dynamics and flowering in a Hawaiian alpine rosette plant, Argyroxiphium sandiwicense
Plant form and function in alpine New Guinea
Alpine herbivory on Mount Kenya
Biotic interactions in Hawaiian high elevation ecosystems
Tropical alpine ecology: progress and priorities
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Tropical Alpine Environments

Plant Form and Function

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