Name: beech forests
SKU: 3409001
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Author: peters

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Springer

Author

peters

Language

English

Pages

184

ISBN

0792344855

ISBN13

9780792344858

Synopsis "beech forests"

this volume compares the beech forests of eastern asia, north america and europe. beech forests are important in each of these three regions. no other book covers beech on this scale. the author has personally studied beech forests in each region, and his large body of data is the starting point for comparison. for such a world-wide comparison to be justified, factors that have most strongly influenced the beech forests should be known. first, use and management of beech forests are compared. they have influenced beech forests for millennia and have been very different in each region. next, in a historical comparison spread and speciation since the early tertiary are analysed. todays beech forests cover a wide range of climates and soils; they occur in cool temperate regions as well as on tropical mountains. the final part compares the trees and forests themselves: growth and form of trees, species composition and populations, forest structure and forest dynamics.