Author: Michael Kenneth Hein
Publisher: Gebruder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Flora of Adak Island, Alaska
Author: Michael Kenneth Hein
Publisher: Gebruder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher: Gebruder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Forest Development in Cold Climates
Author: John Alden
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489916008
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
As forests decline in temperate and tropical climates, highly-developed countries and those striving for greater economic and social benefits are beginning to utilize marginal forests of high-latitude and mountainous regions for resources to satisfy human needs. The benefits of marginal forests range from purely aesthetic to providing resources for producing many goods and services demanded by a growing world population. Increased demands for forest resources and amenities and recent warming of high latitude climates have generated interest in reforestation and afforestation of marginal habitats in cold regions. Afforestation of treeless landscapes improves the environment for human habitation and provides for land use and economic prosperity. Trees are frequently planted in cold climates to rehabilitate denuded sites, for the amenity of homes and villages, and for wind shelter, recreation, agroforestry, and industrial uses. In addition, forests in cold climates reduce the albedo of the earth's surface in winter, and in summer they are small but significant long-lived sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide. Finally, growth and reproductive success of forests at their geographic limits are sensitive indices of climatic change. As efforts to adapt forests to cold climates increase, however, new afforestation problems arise and old ones intensify. Austral, northern, and altitudinal tree limits are determined by many different factors. Current hypotheses for high-latitude tree limits are based on low growing-season temperatures that inhibit plant development and reproduction.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489916008
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
As forests decline in temperate and tropical climates, highly-developed countries and those striving for greater economic and social benefits are beginning to utilize marginal forests of high-latitude and mountainous regions for resources to satisfy human needs. The benefits of marginal forests range from purely aesthetic to providing resources for producing many goods and services demanded by a growing world population. Increased demands for forest resources and amenities and recent warming of high latitude climates have generated interest in reforestation and afforestation of marginal habitats in cold regions. Afforestation of treeless landscapes improves the environment for human habitation and provides for land use and economic prosperity. Trees are frequently planted in cold climates to rehabilitate denuded sites, for the amenity of homes and villages, and for wind shelter, recreation, agroforestry, and industrial uses. In addition, forests in cold climates reduce the albedo of the earth's surface in winter, and in summer they are small but significant long-lived sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide. Finally, growth and reproductive success of forests at their geographic limits are sensitive indices of climatic change. As efforts to adapt forests to cold climates increase, however, new afforestation problems arise and old ones intensify. Austral, northern, and altitudinal tree limits are determined by many different factors. Current hypotheses for high-latitude tree limits are based on low growing-season temperatures that inhibit plant development and reproduction.
Atlas of Rare Endemic Vascular Plants of the Arctic
Author: Stephen S. Talbot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gap analysis (Conservation biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gap analysis (Conservation biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Climate and Plant Distribution
Author: F. I. Woodward
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521282147
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Correlation between plant distribution and climate is examined over different time and space scales to determine the mechanisms of control in physiological and biochemical terms.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521282147
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Correlation between plant distribution and climate is examined over different time and space scales to determine the mechanisms of control in physiological and biochemical terms.
Wildlife Abstracts
Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Flora of North America: Volume 2: Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms
Author: Flora of North America Editorial Committee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195082427
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This second volume of the magnificent compendium exhaustively describes and classifys the ferns, fern allies, and gymnosperms of North America. Covering over two dozen fern and half a dozen gymnosperm families, they survey fern species of both ecological and horticultural importance and review such gymnosperm taxa as the conifers (the dominant trees in many forests as well as important timber plants) and cycads, which display significant evolutionary features. In all, the volume assembles 509 species of ferns and fern allies and infraspecific taxa in 70 genera.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195082427
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This second volume of the magnificent compendium exhaustively describes and classifys the ferns, fern allies, and gymnosperms of North America. Covering over two dozen fern and half a dozen gymnosperm families, they survey fern species of both ecological and horticultural importance and review such gymnosperm taxa as the conifers (the dominant trees in many forests as well as important timber plants) and cycads, which display significant evolutionary features. In all, the volume assembles 509 species of ferns and fern allies and infraspecific taxa in 70 genera.
Geology of Buldir Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Author: Robert Roy Coats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The geology and geologic history of the island, with its flora, and the petrographic and chemical character of its volcanic rocks.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The geology and geologic history of the island, with its flora, and the petrographic and chemical character of its volcanic rocks.
Wildlife Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Flora of Alaska and Yukon
Author: Eric Hultén
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Flora of North America North of Mexico
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190202750
Category : Bryophytes
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190202750
Category : Bryophytes
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description