Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Boxes
- Preface
- Prologue Environmental changes and ecosystem effects: two historical examples
- Section I History and concepts
- Section II Ecosystem structure and function
- Chapter 4 Ecosystem structure: site factors, soil and vegetation
- Chapter 5 Energy and water
- Chapter 6 Plant production
- Chapter 7 Soil organic matter dynamics
- Chapter 8 Organisms and ecosystem processes
- Chapter 9 Element cycles
- Chapter 10 Principles
- Section III Ecosystem dynamics at different time scales
- Section IV Applications
- Appendix 1 Abbreviations
- Appendix 2 Glossary
- Appendix 3 Some useful values and symbols used to represent them
- Appendix 4 Information and data on selected ecosystems
- References
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Chapter 4 - Ecosystem structure: site factors, soil and vegetation
from Section II - Ecosystem structure and function
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Boxes
- Preface
- Prologue Environmental changes and ecosystem effects: two historical examples
- Section I History and concepts
- Section II Ecosystem structure and function
- Chapter 4 Ecosystem structure: site factors, soil and vegetation
- Chapter 5 Energy and water
- Chapter 6 Plant production
- Chapter 7 Soil organic matter dynamics
- Chapter 8 Organisms and ecosystem processes
- Chapter 9 Element cycles
- Chapter 10 Principles
- Section III Ecosystem dynamics at different time scales
- Section IV Applications
- Appendix 1 Abbreviations
- Appendix 2 Glossary
- Appendix 3 Some useful values and symbols used to represent them
- Appendix 4 Information and data on selected ecosystems
- References
- Index
- Plate section
- References
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- Terrestrial Ecosystem EcologyPrinciples and Applications, pp. 40 - 63Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011