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Macroclimate and Plant Forms

An Introduction to Predictive Modeling in Phytogeography
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258 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Netherlandserschienen am30.09.1981
It seemed to me, as an ambitious doctoral student, that one way to attempt an answer might be to try to predict world vegetation from climate alone and then compare the predicted results with actual vegetation patterns.mehr
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KlappentextIt seemed to me, as an ambitious doctoral student, that one way to attempt an answer might be to try to predict world vegetation from climate alone and then compare the predicted results with actual vegetation patterns.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-90-6193-941-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr1981
Erscheinungsdatum30.09.1981
ReiheTasks for Vegetation Science
Seiten258 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht717 g
IllustrationenXIII, 258 p.
Artikel-Nr.10866687

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction.- 2. Modeling ecological structure and function.- A. World vegetation models in general.- B. The current model.- C. Model structure and technical considerations.- 3. Ecological classification of world vegetation.- A. Vegetation description and vegetation data.- B. Ecophysiognomic characters of terrestrial vegetation.- C. Life forms of world terrestrial vegetation.- 4. Modeling the effective environment.- A. Climate data.- B. Selection of ecoclimatic variables.- C. The ecoclimatic variables and their significance.- 5. The ecological model: life-form limitation, cover and dominance.- A. Ecological data.- B. The environmental-limitation model.- C. The cover model.- D. The dominance model.- E. Proximity to environmental limits.- F. Interpreting vegetation formations.- 6. Model results.- A. Model output and applicability.- B. Generating and mapping world results.- C. Overview of world ecoclimates.- D. Life-form prediction frequency.- E. Predicted plant-form distributions.- F. Predicting world vegetation types.- G. Physiognomic diversity of vegetation.- H. General observations and problems.- 7. Evaluation of model results.- A. Site comparison of predicted and actual vegetation.- B. Vegetation and climate at unusual sites.- C. Vegetation sensitivity to climatic variation.- 8. Conclusions and next steps.- Appendices.- Appendix A. Description of the plant types.- Appendix B. Predicted vegetation at selected representative and well-known sites.- Appendix C. Predicted vegetation at the validation sites.- Appendix D. Actual vegetation at the validation sites.- Appendix E. The macroclimatic data-base.- Appendix F. The processing and mapping programs.- References.mehr