Atlas of woody plants in China: distribution and climate

'Atlas of Woody Plants in China: Distribution and Climate” documents the spatially-explicit county-level distribution of all 11,405 woody plants in China, together with life form information for most species. It also provides climateinformation for each species, with the county-level average and range of 12 climatic indices and of vegetation net primary productivity. It is the first and largest comprehensive atlas in the world for the distribution of China’s plants and was compiled on the basis of almost all related literature published throughout China. The atlas should serve as an indispensable handbook for all those who are interested in the plants, ecology, geography, environment, horticulture, and silviculture of China and East Asia. Dr. Jingyun Fang is a Cheung Kong Professor at the Department of Ecology, Peking University, China. Dr. Zhiheng Wang and Dr. Zhiyao Tang are both ecologists working at the same institute. Contains more than 10,000 illustration Provides a full species checklist ofmore than 11,000 woody plants in China Describes the detailed climate information for each woody plants INDICE: Introduction to the Compilation of This Atlas.- Characteristics ofDistribution of Woody Plants in China.- Climatic Variables and Their Distribution in China.- Species Distribution and Climates.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-15016-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 2000
• Fecha Publicación: 31/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés