Temperate Deciduous Forests.

• DOI: 10.2307/2260878
• Publication Date: 2006-06-17T12:38:52Z
• Authors: G. F. Peterken; E. Rohrig; B. Ulrich
• Keywords: Temperate deciduous forest; Temperate forest; Forest dynamics

Preface. List of Contributors. I. GENERAL ASPECTS. 1. Introduction (E. Rohrig). Definitions. Geographical distribution. References. 2. Climatic conditions General climatic characteristics. Climate diagrams. 3. Floral composition and its evolutionary development 4. Seasonality Leaf shedding. Phenology. 5. Vegetation structure forest succession Stand structure. Dynamics ecosystems: the concept succession. Primary successions. Secondary Gap dynamics. 6. The animal community: diversity resources (M. Schaefer). Introduction. Composition fauna. habitat fauna: patterns occurrence, distribution spatial Diurnal rhythms, seasonality life cycles. Succession. Trophic relationships. Species diversity. Resource partitioning. Organization ecosystem functional Acknowledgements. II. ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES. 7. Ecochemistry temperate deciduous (P.K. Khanna B. Ulrich). Nutrient-related Distribution dynamics elements in vegetation components. Element balance litter layer. Element-associated processes soil behaviour forests. Conclusions. 8. Biomass productivity Definitions, methods assessment. Biomass. Net primary productivity. 9. production decomposition Utilization food: biochemistry, energy nutrients. Processes within subunits ecosystem. Energy flow whole Nutrient cyles. Animals as heterotrophic regulators ecosystems. III. REGIONAL 10. Deciduous forests North America (B.V. Barnes). species their major adaptations. Southeastern evergreen region. Oak-Hickory-Pine Region. Appalachian Oak Mixed Mesophytic Western Oak-Hickory Beech-Sugar Maple Sugar Maple-Basswood Northern Hardwood-Conifer Boreal Forest. River Floodplain Forests. American 11. Fauna (J.T. Kitchings B.T. Walton). Community composition. variation density. Ecological Successional patterns. Seasonality. 12. Temperate Mexico Central Floristic stand structures. 13. Europe (G. Jahn). Environment. Phytogeographical division Europe. Historical survey. tree Forest communities. Regional survey on survey: Middle European Alpic Carpathian Pannonian Pontic Submediterranean Mediterranean regions. 14. Well-studied Comparison mull mor sites. 15. Near East Location. Orography geology. Climate. types. 16. Asia (K.K. Ching). broadleaved China. Japan. Korea. 17. Southern South (J. Schmaltz). Geology soils. history. Systematic list genera. Author index. Index.