Vegetation and climate / Siegmar-W. Breckle, M. Daud Rafiqpoor.
Breckle, Siegmar-W., author.; Rafiqpoor, M. Daud, author.
2022
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Title Vegetation and climate / Siegmar-W. Breckle, M. Daud Rafiqpoor.
Author Breckle, Siegmar-W., author.
Uniform Title Vegetation und Klima. English
ISBN 9783662640364 (electronic bk.)
3662640368 (electronic bk.)
9783662640357
366264035X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64036-4
Published Berlin : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Language Note Translated from German.
Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 557 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-662-64036-4 doi
Call Number QK754.5
Dewey Decimal Classification 581.7/22
Summary Vegetation, soil and climate are the most important components of ecological systems. The book presents a compact synthesis of our current knowledge of the ecology of the Earth and is thus the basis for understanding the major interrelationships in a global perspective. In the first part, with a rich endowment of illustrations and photographic material, the well-introduced book deals with the essential processes and operations on the Earth's surface that lead to the formation of the vegetation cover with its distinctive zonation. In the second part, the individual vegetation zones as large-scale ecosystems (i.e. zonobiomes of the biosphere) are consistently described comparatively according to certain criteria. In a short and compact form, the main characteristics and structures as well as examples of ecosystem processes are discussed. The large-scale ecosystems are also the basis and reference system for all anthropogenic changes that have drastically altered vegetation over the last millennia, but especially in the 20th century. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Vegetation und Klima by Siegmar-W. Breckle and M. Daud Rafiqpoor, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors. Authors Siegmar-W. Breckle long-time professor and head of the Department of Ecology at the University of Bielefeld (Germany). He continued the multi-volume work "Ecology of the Earth" by Heinrich Walter, published numerous articles and books on the ecology of many regions, especially the drylands combined with countless study trips around the globe. His research in deserts, tropics and high mountains is the basis for the corresponding chapters in this book. M. Daud Rafiqpoor, long-time research associate of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and coordinator of two ecologically oriented long-term projects of this academy ("Three-dimensional Landscape Classification of the Tropics and Subtropics" and "Biodiversity in Change"). Numerous study trips in almost all tropical and subtropical mountains of the world. Publication of many papers and books on the geography and ecology of tropical and subtropical high mountains and Afghanistan.
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Intro
Accompanying Word
Accompanying Word
Preface
Amendment to the English Edition
Amendment to the English Edition
Contents
Physical Units and Conversion Factors
Basic Units
Basic Units
Other Units
Further Conversions
Transformation Energy for Changes in the State of Water
Internationally Defined Prefixes for Units and the Associated Factors (English Designations)
Abbreviations and Symbols
Part I: General Part
1: Preliminary Remarks
1.1 Scientific Ecology
1.2 Importance of Systematics and Taxonomy for Biology

1.3 Importance of Scientific Documentation (e.g. in Museums)
1.4 Importance of Excursions for Young Scientists
References
2: Part A: Ecological Basics (Autecology)
2.1 Ecological Factors
2.1.1 Radiation, Light
Radiation and Plant
Absorption of Radiation Through the Leaves
2.1.2 Temperature, Frost, Heat
2.1.3 Water
Global Water Supply
Water Balance Types and Drought Resistance
Soil Water
Water State of the Cell
Xerophytes
2.1.4 Chemical Factors and the Soil
Nutrients and Trace Elements, Mineral Supply
Salt: Halophytes and Salt Soils, Halobiomes

2.1.5 Mechanical Factors
Wind, Trampling
Fire
2.2 The Climate
2.2.1 General Questions
2.2.2 The Radiation Budget and Astronomical Basics
2.2.3 The Heat Balance
2.2.4 The Water Balance
2.2.5 The Earthś Eco-Climates (Climate Classification)
2.2.6 Climate Representation: Thermo-Isopleth Diagrams, Ecological Climate Diagrams
References
3: Part B: Ecological Basis (Synecology)
3.1 Environment and Competition
3.2 Pollination and Fertilization (Flowers, Seeds, Fruits)
3.3 Dispersal and Distribution
3.4 Ecotypes and Biotope Change

3.5 The Historical Dimension
3.6 Coevolution and Symbioses
3.7 Population Ecology
3.8 Biodiversity
3.8.1 The Uneven Global Distribution of Biodiversity
3.8.2 On the Value of Threatened Diversity
3.9 Zonal, Azonal and Extrazonal Vegetation
References
4: Part C: Ecological Systems and Ecosystem Biology
4.1 Geo-Biosphere and Hydro-Biosphere
4.2 The Hydro-Biosphere
4.3 Division of the Geo-Biosphere into Zonobiomes
4.4 Zonoecotone
4.5 Ecological Systems
4.6 Orobiomes and Pedobiomes
4.7 Biome

4.8 Small Units of the Ecological System: Biogeocenes and Synusia
4.9 Ecosystem Biology and the Nature of Ecosystems
4.10 Highly Productive Ecosystems
4.11 Peculiarities of the Material Cycles of Different Ecosystems
4.12 The Importance of Fire for Ecosystems
4.13 The Individual Zonobiomes and Their Distribution
References
Part II: Special Part
5: Part D: ZB I-Zonobiome of the Evergreen Tropical Rainforest or of the Equatorial Humid Diurnal Climate
5.1 Typical Features of the Climate in ZB I
5.2 Soils and Pedobiomes
5.3 Vegetation

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