Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador /

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Beck, Erwin. (Editor ), Bendix, Jörg. (Editor ), Kottke, Ingrid. (Editor ), Makeschin, Franz. (Editor ), Mosandl, Reinhard. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis, 198
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245 1 0 |a Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador /  |c edited by Erwin Beck, Jörg Bendix, Ingrid Kottke, Franz Makeschin, Reinhard Mosandl. 
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490 1 |a Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis,  |v 198 
505 0 |a The Ecosystem (Reserva Biológica San Francisco) -- Mountain Rain Forests in Southern Ecuador as a Hotspot of Biodiversity – Limited Knowledge and Diverging Patterns -- The People Settled Around Podocarpus National Park -- Ecuador Suffers the Highest Deforestation Rate in South America -- Methodological Challenges of a Megadiverse Ecosystem -- Gradients in Ecosystem Analysis -- Investigating Gradients in Ecosystem Analysis -- The Investigated Gradients -- The Altitudinal Gradient -- Climate -- Soils Along the Altitudinal Transect and in Catchments -- Flora and Fungi: Composition and Function -- Flora and Fungi: Composition and Function -- Flora and Fungi: Composition and Function -- Flora and Fungi: Composition and Function -- Flora and Fungi: Composition and Function -- Fauna: Composition and Function -- Fauna: Composition and Function -- Fauna: Composition and Function -- Fauna: Composition and Function -- Water Relations -- Nutrient Status and Fluxes at the Field and Catchment Scale -- Biotic Soil Activities -- Altitudinal Changes in Stand Structure and Biomass Allocation of Tropical Mountain Forests in Relation to Microclimate and Soil Chemistry -- Stand Structure, Transpiration Responses in Trees and Vines and Stand Transpiration of Different Forest Types Within the Mountain Rainforest -- Plant Growth Along the Altitudinal Gradient — Role of Plant Nutritional Status, Fine Root Activity, and Soil Properties -- Spatial Heterogeneity Patterns — a Comparison Between Gorges and Ridges in the Upper Part of an Evergreen Lower Montane Forest -- The Unique Purdiaea nutans Forest of Southern Ecuador — Abiotic Characteristics and Cryptogamic Diversity -- Climate Variability -- Growth Dynamics of Trees in Tropical Mountain Ecosystems -- Temporal Heterogeneities — Matter Deposition from Remote Areas -- Gradients of Disturbance -- Gap Dynamics in a Tropical Lower Montane Forest in South Ecuador -- Landslides as Important Disturbance Regimes — Causes and Regeneration -- Sustainable and Non-Sustainable Use of Natural Resources by Indigenous and Local Communities -- Natural Forest Management in Neotropical Mountain Rain Forests — An Ecological Experiment -- Permanent Removal of the Forest: Construction of Roads and Power Supply Lines -- Forest Clearing by Slash and Burn -- Gradients of Regeneration -- Gradients and Patterns of Soil Physical Parameters at Local, Field and Catchment Scales -- Visualization and Analysis of Flow Patterns and Water Flow Simulations in Disturbed and Undisturbed Tropical Soils -- Pasture Management and Natural Soil Regeneration -- Succession Stages of Vegetation Regeneration: Secondary Tropical Mountain Forests -- Reforestation of Abandoned Pastures: Seed Ecology of Native Species and Production of Indigenous Plant Material -- Reforestation of Abandoned Pastures: Silvicultural Means to Accelerate Forest Recovery and Biodiversity -- Successional Stages of Faunal Regeneration — A Case Study on Megadiverse Moths -- Synopsis -- Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem — a Synthesis. 
650 0 |a Ecosystems. 
650 0 |a Biodiversity. 
650 0 |a Plant ecology. 
650 0 |a Animal ecology. 
650 0 |a Forestry management. 
650 0 |a Environmental management. 
650 1 4 |a Ecosystems. 
650 2 4 |a Biodiversity. 
650 2 4 |a Plant Ecology. 
650 2 4 |a Animal Ecology. 
650 2 4 |a Forestry Management. 
650 2 4 |a Environmental Management. 
700 1 |a Beck, Erwin.  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Bendix, Jörg.  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Kottke, Ingrid.  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Makeschin, Franz.  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Mosandl, Reinhard.  |e editor. 
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