Tropical Cloud Forest Ecology in Hainan Island

This book introduces ecology of tropical cloud forests in China, a high-altitudinal tropical forest. The findings are novel in revealing environmental characteristics, community features, diversity patterns, plant strategies, community assembly mechanisms, and diversity-ecosystem functions of tropical cloud forests in China. The knowledge of this book will bridge the gaps of our understanding on the tropical forest in China and the world-wide, and will enrich the theory of tropical forest community ecology.Written by experts in the field, this book will serve as an invaluable reference for tropical forest ecology researchers.

Reviews knowledge from different aspects of forest ecology in southern China Provides a valuable source for plant ecologist worldwide working on cloud forest Presents an excellent source of information regarding plants diversity in high altitude forest ecosystem

Auteur

Dr. Wenxing Long is a professor at the College of Forestry, Hainan University, China.

Contenu

Chapter 1. Environmental Characteristics in Tropical Cloud Forests.- Chapter 2. Community structure and species diversity in tropical cloud forests .- Chapter 3. Variation in plant diversity in three tropical cloud forests in Hainan Island.- Chapter 4. Functional trait variation on community organization scale and systematic classification level of tropical cloud forests on Hainan Island, china.- Chapter 5. Exploring the scale-dependence of functional trait relationship.- Chapter 6. The non-random assembly of tropical cloud forest community based on two functional traits.- Chapter 7. Changes in species co-occurrence patterns with increasing environmental stress across two types of tropical cloud forest.- Chapter 8. Intraspecific trait variation promoting plant community assemblage in a tropical cloud forest.- Chapter 9. Effects of species pool size and spatial scale variation on tropical cloud forest community assembly.- Chapter 10. Distribution patterns of aboveground biomass of tropical cloud forests in Hainan Island .- Chapter 11. Relationships between plant diversity and above-ground biomass correlated with soil phosphorus stresses in a tropical cloud forest. <p