Schnitzer / Bongers / Burnham Ecology of Lianas

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-39242-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 504 Seiten, E-Book

Lianas are woody vines that were the focus of intense study byearly ecologists, such as Darwin, who devoted an entire book to thenatural history of climbing plants. Over the past quartercentury, there has been a resurgence in the study of lianas, andliana are again recognized as important components of many forests,particularly in the tropics. The increasing amount ofresearch on lianas has resulted in a fundamentally deeperunderstanding of liana ecology, evolution, and life-history, aswell as the myriad roles lianas play in forest dynamics andfunctioning.
This book provides insight into the ecology and evolution oflianas, their anatomy, physiology, and natural history, theirglobal abundance and distribution, and their wide-ranging effectson the myriad organisms that inhabit tropical and temperateforests.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schnitzer, Stefan

Bongers, Frans

Burnham, Robyn J.

Putz, Francis E.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Stefan A. Schnitzer has studied tropical forest ecology inBorneo, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, and Panama. He iscurrently a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,Wisconsin, USA, and a Research Associate with the SmithsonianTropical Research Institute in the Republic of Panama.
Frans Bongers has studied lianas for 20 years, analysing lianacommunities, populations and autecology, as well as liana use andmanagement, mostly in the context of forest dynamics. He isProfessor of Tropical Forest Ecology at Wageningen Universityand Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Robyn J. Burnham is Associate Professor of Ecology andEvolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan and a ResearchAssociate at Smithsonian Institution, Field Museum, and MissouriBotanical Garden. She has a dedicated focus on the species ofclimbing plants that dominate the Amazon Basin, from Ecuador, Peru,Bolivia, and all the way across Brazil, to the mouth of the Amazonriver.
Francis E. Putz started his research on liana ecology andmanagement in the 1970s in Southeast Asia, but has since spent anequal amount of time in Latin America researching vines and forestconservation. He is a Professor at the University of Florida and aSenior Research Associate with the Center for InternationalForestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia.