@article{1435602,
      recid = {1435602},
      author = {Körner, Christian,},
      title = {Alpine plant life : functional plant ecology of high  mountain ecosystems /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource (507 pages)},
      year = {2021},
      abstract = {This book is a completely revised, substantially extended  treatment of the physical and biological factors that drive  life in high mountains. The book covers the characteristics  of alpine plant life, alpine climate and soils, life under  snow, stress tolerance, treeline ecology, plant water,  carbon, and nutrient relations, plant growth and  productivity, developmental processes, and two largely  novel chapters on alpine plant reproduction and global  change biology. The book explains why the topography driven  exposure of plants to dramatic micro-climatic gradients  over very short distances causes alpine biodiversity to be  particularly robust against climatic change.  Geographically, this book draws on examples from all parts  of the world, including the tropics. This book is  complemented with novel evidence and insight that emerged  over the last 17 years of alpine plant research. The number  of figures -- mostly in color -- nearly doubled, with many  photographs providing a vivid impression of alpine plant  life worldwide. Christian Körner was born in 1949 in  Austria, received his academic education at the University  of Innsbruck, and was full professor of Botany at the  University of Basel from 1989 to 2014. As emeritus  Professor he is continuing alpine plant research in the  Swiss Alps.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1435602},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59538-8},
}