Format:
Online-Ressource (digital)
ISBN:
9783540735267
Series Statement:
Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis 198
Content:
A fascinating work that provides a wealth of information on one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems. This is the result of investigations by almost 30 groups of researchers from various disciplines. They performed ecosystem analyses following two gradients: an altitudinal gradient and a gradient of land use intensity and ecosystem regeneration following human use. Based on these analyses, this volume discusses these findings in a huge variety of subject areas.
Content:
A tropical mountain ecosystem in one of the "hottest" biodiversity hotspots worldwide was investigated by some 30 research teams of numerous disciplines in the natural and social sciences. Ecosystem analysis followed two gradients: an altitudinal gradient and a gradient of land-use intensity and ecosystem regeneration, respectively. This volume addresses a multitude of ecologically relevant aspects: macro- and microclimate; physics, chemistry and biology of soils; water relations, matter turnover and nutrient availability; plant growth and biomass partitioning; floral composition and
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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CONTENTS; 1 The Ecosystem (Reserva Biológica San Francisco); 2 Mountain Rain Forests in Southern Ecuador as a Hotspot of Biodiversity - Limited Knowledge and Diverging Patterns; 3 The People Settled Around Podocarpus National Park; 4 Ecuador Suffers the Highest Deforestation Rate in South America; 5 Methodological Challenges of a Megadiverse Ecosystem; 6 Investigating Gradients in Ecosystem Analysis; 7 The Investigated Gradients; 8 Climate; 9 Soils Along the Altitudinal Transect and in Catchments
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10.1 Potential Vegetation and Floristic Composition of Andean Forests in South Ecuador, with a Focus on the RBSF10.2 Past Vegetation and Fire Dynamics; 10.3 Forest Vegetation Structure Along an Altitudinal Gradient in Southern Ecuador; 10.4 Vegetation Structures and Ecological Features of the Upper Timberline Ecotone; 10.5 Mycorrhizal State and New and Special Features of Mycorrhizae of Trees, Ericads, Orchids, Ferns, and Liverworts; 11.1 Bird Species Distribution Along an Altitudinal Gradient in Southern Ecuador and its Functional Relationships with Vegetation Structure
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11.2 Seed Dispersal by Birds, Bats and Wind11.3 Variation of Diversity Patterns Across Moth Families Along a Tropical Altitudinal Gradient; 11.4 Soil Fauna; 12 Water Relations; 13 Nutrient Status and Fluxes at the Field and Catchment Scale; 14 Biotic Soil Activities; 15 Altitudinal Changes in Stand Structure and Biomass Allocation of Tropical Mountain Forests in Relation to Microclimate and Soil Chemistry; 16 Stand Structure, Transpiration Responses in Trees and Vines and Stand Transpiration of Different Forest Types Within the Mountain Rainforest
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17 Plant Growth Along the Altitudinal Gradient - Role of Plant Nutritional Status, Fine Root Activity, and Soil Properties18 Spatial Heterogeneity Patterns - a Comparison Between Gorges and Ridges in the Upper Part of an Evergreen Lower Montane Forest; 19 The Unique Purdiaea nutans Forest of Southern Ecuador - Abiotic Characteristics and Cryptogamic Diversity; 20 Climate Variability; 21 Growth Dynamics of Trees in Tropical Mountain Ecosystems; 22 Temporal Heterogeneities - Matter Deposition from Remote Areas; 23 Gap Dynamics in a Tropical Lower Montane Forest in South Ecuador
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24 Landslides as Important Disturbance Regimes - Causes and Regeneration25 Sustainable and Non-Sustainable Use of Natural Resources by Indigenous and Local Communities; 26 Natural Forest Management in Neotropical Mountain Rain Forests - An Ecological Experiment; 27 Permanent Removal of the Forest: Construction of Roads and Power Supply Lines; 28 Forest Clearing by Slash and Burn; 29 Gradients and Patterns of Soil Physical Parameters at Local, Field and Catchment Scales; 30 Visualization and Analysis of Flow Patterns and Water Flow Simulations in Disturbed and Undisturbed Tropical Soils
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31 Pasture Management and Natural Soil Regeneration
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783540735250
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Gradients in a tropical mountain ecosystem of Ecuador Berlin : Springer, 2008 ISBN 3540735259
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783540735250
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Ecuador
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Tropischer Regenwald
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Gebirgswald
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Waldökosystem
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-540-73526-7
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Author information:
Bendix, Jörg 1961-
Author information:
Mosandl, Reinhard 1952-
Author information:
Makeschin, Franz 1950-
