Walter's Vegetation of the earth : the ecological systems of the geo-biosphere /

Walter's Vegetation of the earth : the ecological systems of the geo-biosphere /

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Author / Creator:Walter, Heinrich, 1898-
Uniform title:Vegetationszonen und Klima. English
Edition:4th, completely rev. and enl. ed.
Imprint:Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2002.
Description:xx, 527 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Plant ecology.
Vegetation and climate.
Phytogeography.
Plant physiology.
Life zones.
Life zones.
Phytogeography.
Plant ecology.
Plant physiology.
Vegetation and climate.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4778821
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Other authors / contributors:Breckle, Siegmar-W.
ISBN:3540433155 (Softcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-501) and index.

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505 0 0 |t Introduction and Remarks --  |g 1.  |t Aims of Ecological Science --  |g 2.  |t Significance of Present-Day Ecology as a Philosophy --  |g 3.  |t Human Impact on Ecosystems --  |g 4.  |t Significance of Systematics and Taxonomy for Biology --  |g 5.  |t Importance of Scientific Documentation --  |g 6.  |t Importance of Excursions for Young Scientists --  |t Ecological Fundamentals --  |g 1.  |t Historical Perspective --  |g 2.  |t Co-Evolution and Symbiosis --  |g 3.  |t Biodiversity and Ecology of Populations --  |g 4.  |t Climate and its Presentation (Homoclimates as well as Climate Diagram Maps) --  |g 5.  |t Environment and Competition --  |g 6.  |t Ecological Factors --  |g 7.  |t Radiation, Light and Basic Astronomy Elements --  |g 8.  |t Temperature --  |g 9.  |t Water Relations of Plants and Vegetation - Poikilohydric and Homeohydric Plants and Adaptation to Water Deficit --  |g 10.  |t Halophytes and Saline Soils, Halobiomes --  |g 11.  |t Mineral Supply and Soils --  |g 12.  |t Ecotypes and the Law of Biotope Change and Relative Constancy of Habitat --  |g 13.  |t Azonal and Extrazonal Vegetation --  |t Ecological Systems and Biology of Ecosystems --  |g 1.  |t Geobiosphere and Hydrobiosphere --  |g 2.  |t Hydrobiosphere --  |g 3.  |t Classification of the Geobiosphere into Zonobiomes --  |g 4.  |t Zonoecotones --  |g 5.  |t Orobiomes --  |g 6.  |t Pedobiomes --  |g 7.  |t Hierarchy of Ecological Systems --  |g 8.  |t Biome --  |g 9.  |t Smaller Units of Ecological Systems: Biogeocenes and Synusiae --  |g 10.  |t Biology and Characteristics of Ecosystems --  |g 11.  |t Highly Productive Ecosystems --  |g 12.  |t Special Features of Material Cycles in Different Ecosystems --  |g 13.  |t Role of Fire for Ecosystems --  |g 14.  |t Individual Zonobiomes and Their Distribution --  |g I.  |t Zonobiome of the Evergreen Tropical Rain Forest (Zonobiome of the Equatorial Humid Diurnal Climate) --  |g 1.  |t Typical Climate in Zonobiome I --  |g 2.  |t Soils and Pedobiomes --  |g 3.  |t Vegetation --  |g 4.  |t Different Types of Vegetation in Zonobiome I Around the Equator --  |g 5.  |t Orobiome I - Tropical Mountains with a Diurnal Climate --  |g 6.  |t Biogeocenes of Zonobiome I as Ecosystems --  |g 7.  |t Fauna and Nutritional Chains in Zonobiome I --  |g 8.  |t Human Beings in Zonobiome I --  |g 9.  |t Zonoecotone I/II - Semi-Evergreen Forest --  |g II.  |t Zonobiome of Savannas and Deciduous Forests and Grasslands (Zonobiome of the Humido-arid Tropical Summer Rain Region) --  |g 1.  |t General --  |g 2.  |t Zonal Vegetation --  |g 3.  |t Savannas (Trees and Grasses) --  |g 4.  |t Parkland --  |g 5.  |t Examples of Larger Savanna Regions --  |g 6.  |t Ecosystem Research --  |g 7.  |t Tropical Hydrobiomes in Zonobiomes I and II --  |g 8.  |t Mangroves as Halo-Helobiomes in Zonobiomes I and II --  |g 9.  |t Shore Formations - Psammobiomes --  |g 10.  |t Orobiome II - Tropical Mountains with an Annual Temperature Periodicity --  |g 11.  |t Man in the Savanna --  |g 12.  |t Zonoecotone II/III --  |g III.  |t Zonobiome of Hot Deserts (Zonobiome of Subtropical Arid Climates) --  |g 1.  |t Climatic Subzonobiomes --  |g 2.  |t Soils and Their Water Content --  |g 3.  |t Substrate-Dependent Desert Types --  |g 4.  |t Water Supply of Desert Plants --  |g 5.  |t Ecological Types of Desert Plants --  |g 6.  |t Productivity of Desert Vegetation --  |g 7.  |t Desert Vegetation of the Various Floristic Realms --  |g 8.  |t Orobiome III - Desert Areas of the Subtropics --  |g 9.  |t Humans in Deserts --  |g 10.  |t Zonoecotone III/IV - Semi-Deserts --  |g IV.  |t Zonobiome of Sclerophyllic Woodlands (Zonobiome of the Arido-Humid Winter Rain Region) --  |g 1.  |t General --  |g 2.  |t Historical Development of Zonobiome IV and Its Relationship with Zonobiome V --  |g 3.  |t Mediterranean Region --  |g 4.  |t Significance of Sclerophylly in Competition --  |g 5.  |t Arid Mediterranean Subzonobiome --  |g 6.  |t California and Neighbouring Regions --  |g 7.  |t Central Chilean Winter Rain Region with Zonoecotone --  |g 8.  |t South African Cape --  |g 9.  |t South West and South Australia --  |g 10.  |t Mediterranean Orobiome --  |g 11.  |t Climate and Vegetation of the Canary Islands --  |g 12.  |t Man in Mediterranean Regions --  |g V.  |t Zonobiome of Laurel Forests (Zonobiome of the Warm-Temperate Humid Climate) --  |g 1.  |t General --  |g 2.  |t Tertiary Forests, Lauriphylly and Sclerophylly --  |g 3.  |t Humid Subzonobiomes on the East Cost of the Continents --  |g 4.  |t Subzonobiome on the West Side of Continents --  |g 5.  |t Biome of Eucalyptus-Nothofagus Forests of South-Eastern Australia and Tasmania --  |g 6.  |t Warm-Temperate Biome of New Zealand --  |g VI.  |t Zonobiome of Deciduous Forests (Zonobiome of the Temperate Nemoral Climate) --  |g 1.  |t Leaf Shedding as Adaptation to Cold Winters --  |g 2.  |t Effect of Cold Winter Periods on Species of the Nemoral Zone --  |g 3.  |t Distribution of Zonobiome VI --  |g 4.  |t Atlantic Heath Regions --  |g 5.  |t Deciduous Forests as Ecosystems (Biogeocenes) --  |g 6.  |t Orobiome VI - Northern Alps and Alpine Forests and Tree Line --  |g 7.  |t Zonoecotone IV/VII - Forest-Steppe --  |g VII.  |t Zonobiome of Steppes and Cold Deserts (Zonobiome of the Arid-Temperature Climate) --  |g 1.  |t Climate --  |g 2.  |t Soils of the East European Steppe Zone --  |g 3.  |t Meadow Steppes on Thick Chernozem and Feather Grass Steppes --  |g 4.  |t North American Prairie --  |g 5.  |t Ecophysiology of Steppe and Prairie Species --  |g 6.  |t Asiatic Steppes --  |g 7.  |t Animal Life of the Steppe --  |g 8.  |t Grass Steppes of the Southern Hemisphere --  |g 9.  |t Subzonobiome of Semi-Deserts --  |g 10.  |t Subzonobiome of Middle Asiatic Deserts --  |g 11.  |t Karakum Desert --  |g 12.  |t Orobiome VII (rIII) in Middle Asia --  |g 13.  |t Subzonobiome of the Central Asiatic Deserts --  |g 14.  |t Subzonobiome of Cold High Plateau Deserts of Tibet and Pamir (sZB VII, tIX) --  |g 15.  |t Man in the Steppe --  |g 16.  |t Zonoecotone VI/VII - Boreonemoral Zone --  |g VII.  |t Zonobiome of the Taiga (Zonobiome of the Cold-Temperature Boreal Climate) --  |g 1.  |t Climate and Coniferous Species of the Boreal Zone --  |g 2.  |t Oceanic Birch Forests in Zonobiome VIII --  |g 3.  |t European Boreal Forest Zone --  |g 4.  |t Ecology of Coniferous Forests --  |g 5.  |t Siberian Taiga --  |g 6.  |t Extreme Continental Larch Forests of Eastern Siberia with Thermokarst Formations --  |g 7.  |t Orobiome VIII - Mountain Tundra --  |g 8.  |t Mires of the Boreal Zone (Peinohelobiomes) --  |g 9.  |t Ecology of Raised Bogs --  |g 10.  |t The Western Siberian Lowlands - The Largest Bog Region of the Earth --  |g 11.  |t Man in the Taiga --  |g 12.  |t Zonoecotone VIII/IX (Forest Tundra) and the Polar Forest and Tree Line --  |g IX.  |t Zonobiome of the Tundra (Zonobiome of the Arctic Climate) --  |g 1.  |t Climate and Vegetation of the Tundra --  |g 2.  |t Ecophysiological Investigations --  |g 3.  |t Animal Life in the Arctic Tundra --  |g 4.  |t Man in the Tundra --  |g 5.  |t The Cold Arctic Desert and Solifluction --  |g 6.  |t Antarctic and Subantarctic Islands --  |g 1.  |t Phytomass and Primary Production of the Various Vegetational Zones and of the Entire Biosphere --  |g 2.  |t Conclusion from an Ecological Point of View --  |g 3.  |t Population Explosion in Developing Countries --  |g 4.  |t Excessive Technological Developments in Industrial Countries --  |g 5.  |t Sustainable Land Use --  |g 6.  |t Large Programs and Global Programs --  |g 7.  |t Testimonies. 
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