Author: L. R. MalcolmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mountain plants
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New Zealand's Alpine Plants Inside and Out
Author: L. R. MalcolmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mountain plants
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New Zealand's Alpine Plants Inside and Out
Author: Bill MalcolmPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 9780908802043
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Using spectacular close-up & microscopic photography, this book shows alpine plants in minute detail, explaining how they function in the difficult conditions of their native habitats.
Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand
Author: Michael HeadsPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1315351218
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to ecologists, evolutionary scientists, geographers, geologists, and scientists in related disciplines. It serves as a key addition to the contemporary discussion on regionalization—how is New Zealand different from the rest of the world? With what other areas does it share its geology, history, and biota? Do new molecular phylogenies show that New Zealand may be seen as a biological ‘parallel universe’ within global evolution?
Above the Treeline
Author: Alan Francis MarkPublisher: Craig Potton Publishing
ISBN: 9781877517761
Category : Mountain animals
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
New Zealand's alpine environment is challenging, not only for the humans who explore it but for the plants and animals that inhabit it. The extremes of temperature, short summers and high rates of erosion make for an uncertain environment, and the flora and fauna have evolved and adapted to it in interesting ways. Above the Treeline: A nature guide to the New Zealand mountains is a guide to the natural history of these fascinating ecosystems. It is the first book to be published that brings together the range of flora and fauna that inhabit the alpine environment. As well as our unique alpine plants, which constitute the majority of the book, this guide includes birds; frogs and lizards; butterflies, moths, grasshoppers, beetles and other invertebrates; and mosses and lichens. An informative introduction is followed by descriptions of more than 850 species, illustrated by approximately 1000 colour photographs. Written by eminent botanist and conservationist Sir Alan Mark, . . .
The Vegetation of New Zealand
Author: Leonard CockaynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Arctic and Alpine Environments
Author: Jack D. IvesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100069822X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Originally published in 1974, Arctic and Alpine Environments examines, the relatively simple ecosystems of arctic and alpine lands that still occupy extensive areas little disturbed by modern technology. The book argues that there is a necessity for carefully controlled development of the resources of these regions and suggests that there is a risk of irreversible disturbance without full understanding of these regions. This book provides a detailed documentation of cold-stressed arctic and alpine terrestrial environments and systematically deals with the present and past physical environment – climate, hydrology and glaciology; biota – treeline, vegetation, vertebrate zoology, and historical biogeography; abiotic processes – geomorphological and pedological and the role of man – bioclimatology, archaeology and technological impact, including radioecology. The book will appeal to academics and students of environmental and biological science, as well as providing a significant source for conservationists’, government agencies and industrial organizations.
The New Zealand Journal of Science
Author: New Zealand Journal of Science
Author: Austral Ark
Author: Adam StowPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033543
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
A detailed, research-informed synthesis of the current issues facing the Australasian biota and the challenges involved in their conservation.
The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants
Author: James CullenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761646
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants. Designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed gardener as well as to the professional botanist. This new edition has been thoroughly reorganised and revised, bringing it into line with modern taxonomic knowledge. Although European in name, the Flora covers plants cultivated in most areas of the United States and Canada as well as in non-tropical parts of Asia and Australasia. Volume 5 completes the series, and includes many important ornamental families, such as Labiatae, Solanaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Acanthaceae, Campanulaceae, and the largest family of Dicotyledons, the Compositae.