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- Presents a unique and comprehensive treatment of plant ecology in high mountain regions of all parts of the world
- Is the fully revised third edition of this successful textbook
- Contains many photographs and line drawings, most of them in color
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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.
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Book Title: Alpine Plant Life
Book Subtitle: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems
Authors: Christian Körner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59538-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59537-1Published: 01 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59540-1Published: 02 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59538-8Published: 31 March 2021
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XIX, 500
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 283 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: 1st edition: © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999 2nd edition: © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003
Topics: Ecology, Plant Sciences, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Nature Conservation