The Ecology Of Areas With Serpentinized Rocks
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The Ecology of Areas with Serpentinized Rocks
Author | : B.A. Roberts,J. Proctor |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789401137225 |
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Serpentine Geoecology of Western North America
Author | : Earl B. Alexander,Robert G. Coleman,Todd Keeler-Wolfe,Susan P. Harrison |
Publsiher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780195165081 |
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This book is about geology, soils, and plant communities in serpentine landscapes of western North America. Aspects of the interaction of geology and soils reveal a fascinating symbiosis relating the structure, composition, and distribution of plant communities. The plants that survive are a unique group. There are some entire genera or even families of plants that are common throughout California that are poorly represented on serpentine, while other genera are more diverse on serpentine than on other soils. Serpentine rocks have dramatic effects on the vegetation that grows on them. Many common plants cannot grow on serpentine soils, leaving distinctive suites of plants to occupy serpentine habitats. The floristic diversity associated with serpentine soils formed above ultramafic rocks is surprising considering that these soils are toxic to many plants. Serpentine barrens of California often look like moonscapes but here we find numerous species of plants of low biomass that produce a richness of species rarely found in the world.
Serpentine
Author | : Susan Harrison,Nishanta Rajakaruna |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2011-02-02 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780520948457 |
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Serpentine soils have long fascinated biologists for the specialized floras they support and the challenges they pose to plant survival and growth. This volume focuses on what scientists have learned about major questions in earth history, evolution, ecology, conservation, and restoration from the study of serpentine areas, especially in California. Results from molecular studies offer insight into evolutionary patterns, while new ecological research examines both species and communities. Serpentine highlights research whose breadth provides context and fresh insights into the evolution and ecology of stressful environments.
Landscape and Vegetation Ecology of the Kakadu Region Northern Australia
Author | : C.M. Finlayson,Isabell von Oertzen |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789400901339 |
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The Kakadu reg10n of northern Australia is swarming over the landscape with their meters steeped in cultural history and natural grandeur. and notebooks and a vast store of information Over the past few decades the rich cultural and was gathered. This book is a summary of the natural heritage of this fascinating region has immense amount of information collected on the become increasingly known to more and more geobotanic features of the region. The cultural people. At the same time as the natural heritage of heritage of the traditional Aboriginal inhabitants the region was being recognised by conser of the region and the diverse and populous fauna vationists and tourists alike the mineral wealth were also investigated. but both these subjects was being recognised by mining enterprises. warrant their own separate volumes and are not Almost inevitably, the mix of conservation and treated here. Throughout this period of intense scientific mining interests led to conflict that is still not completely resolved. However, much has hap interest the very nature of the region has changed. pened over the years and we now have a major Besides changes in human habitation the physical and biological environment has come under national park that is largely leased from the Aboriginal traditional owners under a manage challenge and even threat. We now have more weed species. We no longer have the large ment agreement.
Ecology and Management of Larix Forests
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Forest management |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D030096478 |
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Geology and Plant Life
Author | : Arthur R. Kruckeberg |
Publsiher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 029598452X |
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Before any other influences began to fashion life and its lavish diversity, geological events created the initial environments--both physical and chemical--for the evolutionary drama that followed. Drawing on case histories from around the world, Arthur Kruckeberg demonstrates the role of landforms and rock types in producing the unique geographical distributions of plants and in stimulating evolutionary diversification. His examples range throughout the rich and heterogeneous tapestry of the earth's surface: the dramatic variations of mountainous topography, the undulating ground and crevices of level limestone karst, and the subtle realm of sand dunes. He describes the ongoing evolutionary consequences of the geology-plant interface and the often underestimated role of geology in shaping climate. Kruckeberg explores the fundamental connection between plants and geology, including the historical roots of geobotany, the reciprocal relations between geology and other environmental influences, geomorphology and its connection with plant life, lithology as a potent selective agent for plants, and the physical and biological influences of soils. Special emphasis is given to the responses of plants to exceptional rock types and their soils--serpentines, limestones, and other azonal (exceptional) substrates. Edaphic ecology, especially of serpentines, has been his specialty for years. Kruckeberg's research fills a significant gap in the field of environmental science by connecting the conventionally separated disciplines of the physical and biological sciences. Geology and Plant Life is the result of more than forty years of research into the question of why certain plants grow on certain soils and certain terrain structures, and what happens when this relationship is disrupted by human agents. It will be useful to a wide spectrum of professionals in the natural sciences: plant ecologists, paleobiologists, climatologists, soil scientists, geologists, geographers, and conservation scientists, as well as serious amateurs in natural history.
Bio Geo Interactions in Metal Contaminated Soils
Author | : Erika Kothe,Ajit Varma |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2012-01-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783642233265 |
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Metal contamination is an increasing ecological and eco-toxicological risk. Understanding the processes involved in metal mobilization, sorption and mineralization in soils are key features for soil bioremediation. Following an introduction to the physical, chemical and biological components of contaminated soils, various chapters address the interactions of soil, microorganisms, plants and the water phase necessary to transfer metals into biological systems. These include topics such as potential hazards at mining sites; rare earth elements in biotic and abiotic acidic systems; manganese redox reactions; biomineralisation, uranium in seepage water; metal-resistant streptomycetes; mycorrhiza in re-forestation; metal (hyper)accummulation in plants; microbial metal uptake; and their potential for bioremediation. This book will be of interest to soil biologists, geologists and chemists, researchers and graduate students, as well as consulting companies and small enterprises involved in bioremediation.
Savannas Barrens and Rock Outcrop Plant Communities of North America
Author | : Roger C. Anderson,James S. Fralish,Jerry M. Baskin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1999-07-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 052157322X |
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A coherent, readable summary of the technical information available on savannas, barrens and rock outcrop plant communities.