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Ecology of mediterranean evergreen oak forests with 84 figures and 60 tables
- Date_TXT
- Berlin : Springer , 1999
- Cote
- 577.53 ROD
- Auteur
- Roda, F, J. Retana
- Type de document
- Livre
Description :
Used by humans since ancient times, evergreen oak forests still cover extensive mountain areas of the Mediterraneen EHasin. These broadleaved evergreen forests occupy a transitional zone between the cool-temperate deciduous forest biome and thé drier Mediterranean pine forests and shrublands. Slow growing and casting a deep shade, the sclerophyllous holm oak (Quercus ilex) absolutely dominates the closed canopy of many Mediterranean evergreen oak forests.
This is a synthesis of 20 years of research on the structure, func-tion, and dynamics of holm oak forests in two intensively studied experimental areas in Spain. By combining observational mea-surements at the leaf, tree, plot, and catchment scales with field experiments and modelling, the authors explore how these forests cope with strong water limitation and repeated distur-bances.