Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2008. |
| Colección: | Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.