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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Pantanal.
Data corrente: | 30/09/1997
Data da última atualização: | 05/01/2016
Autoria: | FURLEY, P. A.; PROCTOR, J.; RATTER, J. A. (ed.).
Afiliação: | University of Edinburgh. Department of Geography (UK); University of Stirling. Scholl of Molecular and Biological Sciences (UK); Royal Botanic Gardens (Edinburgh, UK).
Título: | Nature and dynamics of forest-savanna boundaries.
Ano de publicação: | 1992
Fonte/Imprenta: | London: Chapman & Hall, 1992.
Páginas: | 616 p.
ISBN: | 0-412-44370-8
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | Boundaries and processes; Forest-savanna boundaries: general considerations; Ecological processes at the forest-savanna boundary; Physical environment at the Boundary; Mapping forest and savannas in sub-Saharan Africa from advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) imagery; Influence of physical factors on the nature and dynamics of forest-savanna boundaries; Dynamics of the forest-savanna boundary in the Rio Branco-Rupunini region of northern Amazonia. Edaphic changes at the forest-savanna boundary with particular reference to the neotropics; Soil and litter nutrient losses in forest clearings close to a forest-savanna boundary on Maraca Island, Roraima, Brazil; Soil conditions and soil biology in different habitats across a forest-savanna boundary on Maraca Island, Roraima, Brazil; Observations on soils, foliar nutrient concentrations and floristic composition of cerrado sensu stricto and cerradao communities in central Brazil; Soil formation and nutrient dynamics at the woodland-savanna boundary in East Africa; Environmental change and vegetation; Landscape dynamics and surface deposits arising from late quaternary fluctuations in the forest-savanna boundary; The development of rainforest-savanna boundaries in tropical Australia; Ultraviolet V-B insolation and the altitudinal forest limit; How old are South Africa's grasslands? Vegetation structure and dynamics at the boundary; The phytogeography of savanna species of neotropical Chrysobalanaceae; The nature and the dynamics of the forest-savanna boundary in south-western Nigeria; Effects of trees on understorey vegetation and soils at forest-savanna boundaries in East Africa; The forest-savanna boundary on Maraca Island, Roraima, Brazil: an investigation of two contrasting transects; Floristic composition, phytosociology and comparison of cerrado and gallery forests at Fazenda Agua Limpa, Federal District, Brazil; Transitions between cerrado and forest vegetation in Brazil; Observations on the differentiation of woodland and wet savanna habitats in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil; The Chaco-Pantanal transition in southern Mato Grosso, Brazil; Animals at the forest-savanna boundary; Soil fauna at the forest-savanna boundary: role of the termite mounds in nutrient cycling; The chemical ecology of forest and savanna termites; The forest-savanna boundary and habitat selection by Brazilian social wasps; The importance of forest edges in the ecology of open country cerrado birds; The role of mammals in neotropical forest-savanna boundaries; Modelling of the Boundary; Modelling energy flows and surface temperatures over forest and savanna; Modelling the location of woody-grassland boundaries; A conceptual model relating environmental factors and vegetation formations in the lowlands of tropical South America.
Palavras-Chave: | Comunidade de planta; Congress; Congresso; Forest; Plant community; Savana; Savanna; Vegetation boundarie.
Thesagro: | Ecologia; Floresta; Vegetação.
Thesaurus Nal: | ecology.
Categoria do assunto: | --
Registro original: | Embrapa Pantanal (CPAP)
Exemplares: | CPAP - (35075-1) - ADC - PC - -- - 574.52643 - F985n - 1997.00186 - DIS