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Author: S. Porembski ,
W. Barthlott
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Volume: 146
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.854kg
ISBN: 9783642641206
ISBN 10: 3642641202
Pages: 524
Publication Date: 18 September 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
From the reviews ... This book will certainly become a benchmark in inselberg ecology, and the editors and all authors are to be commended for their most valuable contribution for making more widely known one of the smallest, but also one of the most interesting biomes on Earth. (Plant Systematics and Evolution) ... This book is a richly illustrated volume and well written. (Journal of Plant Physiology) ... the book is extremely handsome, assisted in part by the luxurious but not exaggerated use of color. (Ecology) ...I enjoyed reading the book. It shows nicely how biologists can benefit from a co-operation with geomorphologists and climatologists. Likewise, it demonstrates with great success that seemingly bare inselberg slopes possess a rich organic world, which in turn influences the development of the inselbergs themselves. With the growing popularity of the subject of biogeomorphologiy, especially biological weathering, this volume should be read by specialists in this subject too as they will find a lot of food-for-thought in it. And for the as yet unconvinced, there is a glorious collection of 54 colour plates showing the extraordinary rock and plant world of the inselbergs right at the beginning of the book. (Progress in Physical Geography) ... the present volume synthesises an impressive amount of information remarkably well and provides a very sound basis for future research. .... the authors and the editors fully deserve to be congratulated for this remarkable, albeit rather expensive, volume. (Flora)
From the reviews ... This book will certainly become a benchmark in inselberg ecology, and the editors and all authors are to be commended for their most valuable contribution for making more widely known one of the smallest, but also one of the most interesting biomes on Earth. (Plant Systematics and Evolution) ... This book is a richly illustrated volume and well written. (Journal of Plant Physiology) ... the book is extremely handsome, assisted in part by the luxurious but not exaggerated use of color. (Ecology) ...I enjoyed reading the book. It shows nicely how biologists can benefit from a co-operation with geomorphologists and climatologists. Likewise, it demonstrates with great success that seemingly bare inselberg slopes possess a rich organic world, which in turn influences the development of the inselbergs themselves. With the growing popularity of the subject of biogeomorphologiy, especially biological weathering, this volume should be read by specialists in this subject too as they will find a lot of food-for-thought in it. And for the as yet unconvinced, there is a glorious collection of 54 colour plates showing the extraordinary rock and plant world of the inselbergs right at the beginning of the book. (Progress in Physical Geography) ... the present volume synthesises an impressive amount of information remarkably well and provides a very sound basis for future research. ... the authors and the editors fully deserve to be congratulated for this remarkable, albeit rather expensive, volume. (Flora)
