Tundra Ecosystems: A Comparative AnalysisBrings together the results of research programmes in Austria, Canada, U.S.A., Finland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, U.K., Ireland, U.S.S.R. and the Antarctic describing tundra and related ecosystems in a comparative manner. Includes sections on the abiotic, plant production and fauna components, the decomposer cycle and the utilisation and conservation of tundra. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Multivariate comparisons of IBP Tundra Biome site characteristics | 47 |
Introduction | 79 |
Hydrology of northern tundra | 115 |
Tundra and analogous soils | 139 |
Introduction | 183 |
Phytomass and primary production of tundra communities USSR | 227 |
A simulation approach to primary production | 247 |
Invertebrate faunas at IBP tundra sites | 517 |
a zoogeographical | 541 |
Invertebrate herbivory at tundra sites | 547 |
Introduction | 559 |
Decomposition and accumulation of organic matter in tundra | 587 |
Ecosystem synthesis a fairytale | 637 |
Nutrients in tundra ecosystems | 647 |
Betweensite comparisons of carbon flux in tundra by using | 685 |
Life cycles population dynamics and the growth of tundra plants | 257 |
An analysis of processes of primary production in tundra growth forms | 285 |
Vertebrates | 359 |
Populations and energetics of small mammals in the tundra ecosystem | 377 |
Ungulates on arctic ranges | 397 |
Predatory birds and mammals | 485 |
Introduction | 509 |
Common terms and phrases
Abisko above-ground Arctic and Alpine arctic tundra areas barren-ground caribou below-ground biomass Biome Biome Steering Committee bryophytes Bunnell Calluna Canada carbon Carex climatic communities decomposition densities Devon Island Dryas dwarf shrubs Ecological Eriophorum F. E. Wielgolaski fauna forest Glenamoy graminoids grazing growing season growth habitats Hardangervidda heath herbivores high arctic IBP tundra increase invertebrates Kevo L. C. Bliss latitude leaf lemmings lichens litter Macquarie Island mammals metabolic moisture Moor House mosses muskox nitrogen nutrients O. W. Heal occur patterns peat permafrost phosphorus photosynthesis phytomass Point Barrow polar desert population predators primary production Prudhoe Bay radiation range Rangifer rates reindeer reindeer and caribou respiration Rosswall Salix sedge Signy Island simulated snow soil species Stordalen studies sub-arctic substrate subzone summer Table Taimyr temperature Tieszen Truelove Lowland Tundra Biome Steering tundra ecosystems tundra sites University of Alaska USSR vascular plants vegetation wet meadow winter