Ecology Of Lianas

Author : Stefan Schnitzer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118392493
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecology of Lianas written by Stefan Schnitzer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lianas are woody vines that were the focus of intense study by early ecologists, such as Darwin, who devoted an entire book to the natural history of climbing plants. Over the past quarter century, there has been a resurgence in the study of lianas, and liana are again recognized as important components of many forests, particularly in the tropics. The increasing amount of research on lianas has resulted in a fundamentally deeper understanding of liana ecology, evolution, and life-history, as well as the myriad roles lianas play in forest dynamics and functioning. This book provides insight into the ecology and evolution of lianas, their anatomy, physiology, and natural history, their global abundance and distribution, and their wide-ranging effects on the myriad organisms that inhabit tropical and temperate forests.

Author : Stefan Schnitzer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118392485
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecology of Lianas written by Stefan Schnitzer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lianas are woody vines that were the focus of intense study by early ecologists, such as Darwin, who devoted an entire book to the natural history of climbing plants. Over the past quarter century, there has been a resurgence in the study of lianas, and liana are again recognized as important components of many forests, particularly in the tropics. The increasing amount of research on lianas has resulted in a fundamentally deeper understanding of liana ecology, evolution, and life-history, as well as the myriad roles lianas play in forest dynamics and functioning. This book provides insight into the ecology and evolution of lianas, their anatomy, physiology, and natural history, their global abundance and distribution, and their wide-ranging effects on the myriad organisms that inhabit tropical and temperate forests.

Author : N. Parthasarathy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319145924
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biodiversity of Lianas written by N. Parthasarathy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book “Biodiversity of lianas” under the series “Sustainable development and Biodiversity” is unique as it covers a wide array of topics in this subject covering all continents and will constitute a valuable reference material for students, researchers and forest managers who are concerned with biodiversity, forest ecology and sustainable development of forest resources. It contains peer-reviewed chapters from leading academicians and researchers around the world in the field of Plant Ecology, Taxonomy and related areas of Biodiversity Science but, centered on Lianology and includes original research articles, case studies and reviews (regional and global) in biodiversity, ecology and phytogeography and conservation of lianas from temperate, sub-tropical and tropical forests. The interest in lianas has increased over the last two decades. The ultimate goal of this book is to provide an insight into the patterns of liana diversity, distribution, the role of lianas in structuring forest community, and functional ecology (carbon uptake, ecosystem services, dynamics and invasion), biotechnological tool for conservation of lianas and finally summarizes the significance and the need for conservation of lianas in the changing global environmental scenario.

Author : Bruce Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789460222245
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lianas of the Guianas written by Bruce Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lianas (woody vines) are iconic symbols of tropical forests around the world. These plants use the energetically expensive investment of trees in woody stems to gain relatively inexpensive access to the light-rich canopy. The evolution of a climbing habit has occurred in many unrelated plant groups using twining and clasping shoots or specialized structures such as tendrils, hooks, spines, adhesive roots, and internal stem anatomy. Lianas contribute significantly to tropical forest diversity (25-40% of species), carbon sequestration, biomass, plant-animal interactions and forest gap dynamics. Although they are often considered pests in commercial forestry, woody climbers are important to many traditional peoples as medicines, subsistence fibers and non-timber forest products. Largely due to their inaccessibility, lianas and other climbers remain among the most poorly documented lifeforms in the tropics. 0This book aims to facilitate learning and identification of woody climbers of the Guianas (Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname) for specialists and non-specialists by using an image-rich format, common and scientific names, simplified botanical terminology, and character icon guides, and by describing ecology and uses.

Author : Geertje M. F. Van Der Heijden
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832517021
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lianas, Ecosystems, and Global Change written by Geertje M. F. Van Der Heijden and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis E. Putz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521392501
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Vines written by Francis E. Putz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1992 book is a treatment of what was known about climbing plants, written by a group of experts.

Author : Andrew Dobson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691199833
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unsolved Problems in Ecology written by Andrew Dobson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume provides a series of essays on open questions in ecology with the overarching goal being to outline to the most important, most interesting or most fundamental problems in ecology that need to be addressed. The contributions span ecological subfields, from behavioral ecology and population ecology to disease ecology and conservation and range in tone from the technical to more personal meditations on the state of the field. Many of the chapters start or end in moments of genuine curiosity, like one which takes up the question of why the world is green or another which asks what might come of a thought experiment in which we "turn-off" evolution entirely"--

Author : Ulrich Lüttge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662033402
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants written by Ulrich Lüttge and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated text covers the ecophysiology of plants of all major tropical ecosystems, from tropical rain forests, epiphytic habitats, mangroves and savannas to salinas, inselbergs and paramos and their ecophysiological adaptation to these different tropical environments. The physiognomy of biotopes and characteristic life forms of plants are depicted with photographs.

Author : Yeshe Palmo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578589978
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trees, Shrubs and Lianas of Nantucket written by Yeshe Palmo and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to 89 species, with over 1200 color photographs, good for Cape Cod & Martha's Vineyard, too! Volume I.

Author : Florencia Montagnini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540237976
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tropical Forest Ecology written by Florencia Montagnini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-03-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Importance pf tropical forests; characteristics of tropical forests; classification of tropical forests; deforestation in the tropics; management of tropical forests; plantatios and agroforestry systems; approaches for implementing sustainable management techniques.