" Tropical alpine" refers to areas within the tropics above the natural elevation limit of
contiguous, closed-canopy forest. The habitat occurs in Central America, South America …

The genus Espeletia (Asteraceae) under-went an accelerated adaptive radiation in the new
habitats of the high tropical Andes after the retreat of the glaciers. From the ancestral …

Low temperature represents, together with drought and salt stress, one of the most important
environmental constraints limiting the pro ductivity and the distribution of plants on the Earth …

This is the third edition of an established and successful university textbook. The original
structure and philosophy of the book continue in this new edition, providing a genuine …

We studied 15 riparian and upland Sonoran desert species to evaluate how the limitation of
xylem pressure (Ψx) by cavitation corresponded with plant distribution along a moisture …

In spite of international agreements at the political level not much has changed since the late
1980s in terms of reducing the speed of destruction of original tropical environments …

Publisher Summary This chapter highlights the evolutionary and ecophysiological
responses of mountain plants to the growing season environment. The responses of …

We investigated the occurrence of freezing-induced cavitation in the evergreen desert shrub
Larrea tridentata and compared it to co-occurring, winter-deciduous Prosopis velutina. Field …

Tropical plant species are expected to have high heat tolerance reflecting phenotypic
adjustments to warm regions or their evolutionary adaptation history. However, tropical …

Background: Tropical high mountains present extreme daily temperature variations, frequent
high air evaporative demands and seasonal differences in soil water availability. Plants …