| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 361 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Illustrations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Scope of the Text -- 1.3 World Vegetation Types -- 1.3.1 Vegetation Formations and Zones -- 1.3.2 Zonobiomes -- 1.3.3 Ecoclimates -- 1.3.4 The Canadian Vegetation Classification System -- 1.3.5 Ecozones -- 1.3.6 Floristic Realms -- 1.3.7 Plant Species Nomenclature -- 1.4 Soil Classifications and Soil Systems -- 1.5 Climatic Parameters -- 1.5.1 The Role of Climate -- 1.5.2 Moisture indexes -- 1.5.3 Climate Diagrams -- 1.6 Plant Strategies |
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1.6.1 Competition1.6.2 Hydrature and Moisture Regulation -- 1.6.3 Life Forms -- 1.6.4 Leaf Morphology and Adaptation -- 1.7 Biomass and Net Primary Productivity -- 2 Tundra -- 2.1 Tundra Distribution -- 2.2 Climate -- 2.3 Soils -- 2.4 Tundra in North America -- 2.4.1 Ecoclimatic Sub-Provinces and Regions -- 2.4.2 High and Mid-Arctic -- 2.4.3 Low Arctic -- 2.5 Tundra in Other Northern Hemisphere Locations -- 2.5.1 Arctic Tundra -- 2.5.2 Typical Tundra -- 2.5.3 Southern Tundra -- 2.5.4 Tundra on Arctic Islands -- 2.6 Tundra in the Southern Hemisphere |
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2.6.1 The Antarctic Subregion2.6.2 The Sub-Antarctic Subregion -- 2.7 Alpine Tundra -- 2.7.1 Temperate-Latitude Alpine Tundra -- 2.7.2 Low-Latitude (Equatorial) Alpine Tundra -- 2.8 Primary Production and Phytomass in Tundra -- 3 Forest-Tundra or Boreal-Tundra Ecotone -- 3.1 Definitions -- 3.2 Distribution -- 3.3 Climate -- 3.4 Soils -- 3.5 Forest-Tundra in Canada -- 3.5.1 Ecoclimatic Sub-Provinces -- 3.5.2 The Shrub Subzone (Northern Forest-Tundra) -- 3.5.3 The Forest Subzone (Southern Forest-Tundra) -- 3.6 Eurasian Forest-Tundra |
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3.7 Primary Production and Phytomass in Forest-Tundra4 Boreal Forest (Taiga) and Mixed Forest Transition -- 4.1 Distribution -- 4.2 Climate -- 4.3 Soils -- 4.4 Boreal Forest in North America -- 4.4.1 Open Lichen Woodland -- 4.4.2 Northern Coniferous Forest -- 4.4.3 Mixed-Forest (Boreal-Broadleaf Ecotone) -- 4.4.4 Mixed-Forest Transition to Grassland (Northern Mixedwoods) -- 4.5 Eurasian Boreal -- 4.5.1 The European Boreal -- 4.5.2 The Siberian Boreal -- 4.5.3 Northwest Pacific Fringe Boreal -- 4.6 Primary Production and Phytomass in Boreal Forest |
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5 Prairie (Steppe)5.1 Distribution -- 5.2 Climate -- 5.2.1 North America -- 5.2.2 Climate in Eurasia and Elsewhere -- 5.3 Soils -- 5.4 Prairie in North America -- 5.4.1 The Canadian Prairie -- 5.4.2 Prairie in the USA -- 5.5 Eurasian Steppe -- 5.6 Southern Hemisphere Grasslands -- 5.6.1 The High Veldt -- 5.6.2 The Pampas/Campos Grasslands -- 5.7 Primary Production and Biomass -- 6 Cordilleran Environments in Western North America -- 6.1 Canada's Cordilleran Ecoclimatic Provinces -- 6.1.1 Distribution -- 6.1.2 Climate -- 6.1.3 Soils |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-332) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Phytogeography -- Canada
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Plant ecology -- Canada
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Phytogeography.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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Phytogeography
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Plant ecology
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Pflanzenökologie
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Vegetation
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Plantengeografie.
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Canada
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Kanada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773565098 |
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0773565094 |
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