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Auteur(s) : Crawford, Robert M. M.
Titre(s) : Tundra-taiga biology [Texte imprimé] : human, plant, and animal survival in the Arctic / R. M. M. Crawford,...
Édition : 1, 1st ed.
Publication : Oxford (GB) : Oxford university press, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-270 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 250-263
The Arctic Tundra and adjacent Boreal Forest or Taiga support the most cold-adapted
flora and fauna on Earth. The evolutionary capacity of both plants and animals to
adapt to these thermally limiting conditions has always attracted biological investigation
and is a central theme of this book. How the polar biota will adapt to a warmer world
is creating significant and renewed interest in this habitat. The Arctic has always
been subject to climatic fluctuation and the polar biota has successfully adapted
to these changes throughout its evolutionary history. Whether or not climatic warming
will allow the Boreal Forest to advance onto the treeless Tundra is one of the most
tantalizing questions that can be asked today in relation to terrestrial polar biology.
Tundra-Taiga Biology provides a circum-polar perspective of adaptation to low temperatures
and short growing seasons, together with a history of climatic variation as it has
affected the evolution of terrestrial life in the Tundra and the adjacent forested
Taiga
Sujet(s) : Écologie des taïgas -- Arctique
Écologie des toundras -- Arctique
Écologie humaine -- Arctique
Indice(s) Dewey :
578.737 (23e éd.) = Biologie des organismes des taïgas
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199559404. - ISBN 0199559406 (rel.). - ISBN 9780199559411. - ISBN 0199559414
(br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43843896w
Notice n° :
FRBNF43843896
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