Forest ecosystems
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
cop. 2008.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Basic terminology and concepts
- Forests as part of the global ecosystem
- Major forest types and their climatic controls
- Local variation in community type: the landscape mosaic
- Change in time: an overview
- Disturbance in forest ecosystems
- Patterns and mechanisms of succession
- The structure of local ecosystems
- How biodiversity is created and maintained
- The biological web: interactions among species
- Size-density relationships in forests over time and across space
- Genetic and evolutionary aspects of species interactions
- Soil: the fundamental resource
- Primary productivity
- Forest nutrition
- Biogeochemical cycling: nutrient inputs to and losses from local ecosystems
- Biogeochemical cycling: the intrasystem cycle
- Herbivores in forest ecosystems
- Ecosystem stability I: introduction and case studies
- Ecosystem stability II: the role of biodiversity
- Ecosystem stability III: conserving species
- The future.
