| Description |
1 online resource (x, 150 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I. Tropical cloud forest community environments and plant diversity. Environmental characteristics in tropical cloud forests -- Community structure and species diversity in tropical cloud forests -- Variation in plant diversity in three tropical cloud forests in Hainan Island -- Part II. Tropical cloud forest community assembly. Functional trait variation on community organization scale and systematic classification level of tropical cloud forests on Hainan Island, China -- Exploring the scale dependence of functional trait relationships -- The nonrandom assembly of tropical cloud forest community based on two functional traits -- Changes in species co-occurrence patterns with increasing environmental stress across two types of tropical cloud forest -- Intraspecific trait variation promoting plant community assemblage in a tropical cloud forest -- Effects of species pool size and spatial scale variation on tropical cloud forest community assembly -- Part III. Tropical cloud forest community functions. Distribution patterns of aboveground biomass of tropical cloud forests in Hainan Island -- Relationships between plant diversity and above-ground biomass correlated with soil phosphorus stresses in a tropical cloud forest |
| Summary |
This book introduces ecology of tropical cloud forests in China, a high-altitudinal tropical forest. The findings are novel in revealing environmental characteristics, community features, diversity patterns, plant strategies, community assembly mechanisms, and diversity-ecosystem functions of tropical cloud forests in China. The knowledge of this book will bridge the gaps of our understanding on the tropical forest in China and the world-wide, and will enrich the theory of tropical forest community ecology. Written by experts in the field, this book will serve as an invaluable reference for tropical forest ecology researchers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 6, 2022) |
| Subject |
Cloud forest ecology -- China -- Hainan Sheng
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Cloud forests -- China -- Hainan Sheng
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Cloud forest ecology
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Cloud forests
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China -- Hainan Sheng
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Long, Wenxing, editor
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| ISBN |
9789811936555 |
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9811936552 |
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