Structure and Functioning of Seminatural Meadows
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Structure and Functioning of Seminatural Meadows

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Structure and Functioning of Seminatural Meadows

About this book

Twelve years' analysis of natural grassland and experimentally managed meadows have produced this unique set of data on the structures and physiological functions of primary producers, consumers and decomposers. Obtained during the 1973-1985 Ecosystem Study on Highland Meadows in Czechoslovakia, such original information is rare in scientific literature. The aim of the study was to define the functioning of these grasslands and their changes under different impact of man, and to examine the ecological function of those ecosystems in the intensively managed catchment area. Hence, this book contains deep analyses of soil microorganisms, their functions in decomposition and soil forming processes - leading to the evaluation of the whole carbon cycle - as well as dealing with nitrogen pathways in the experimental plots - resulting in precise determination of the full nitrogen cycle. Procedures used in practical agriculture, such as cutting, fertilization and renovation, have also been applied, producing evaluations from both ecological and economical view-points.The book's integrated ecosystem approach to grasslands, its deep professional analyses in each section, along with the synthesis on each particular level and across all levels, renders it an invaluable, informative text, comprising extensive figures and tables and a substantial bibliography of world-wide sources.

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Information

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780444986696
eBook ISBN
9780444599643
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Ecology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Structure and Functioning of Seminatural Meadows
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Chapter 1. Introduction
  7. Chapter 2. Meadow communities of the Ždárské Vrchy Landscape Reserve
  8. Chapter 3. Characteristics of the climatic factors
  9. Chapter 4. Grassland ecosystems for pilot studies – the Kameničky area
  10. Chapter 5. Edaphic factors
  11. Chapter 6. Structure of the populations of plant communities
  12. Chapter 7. Primary producers of the natural stand (N)
  13. Chapter 8. Underground biomass in meadow stands
  14. Chapter 9. Anatomical structure of leaves of the dominant grasses
  15. Chapter 10. Limits of forage production and the efficiency of grassland management
  16. Chapter 11. Photosynthesis and limiting factors
  17. Chapter 12. Plant–water relationships in grasslands
  18. Chapter 13. Consumers in grassland ecosystems at Kamenicky
  19. Chapter 14. Micro-organisms in grassland ecosystems
  20. Chapter 15. Carbon cycling in grassland ecosystems
  21. Chapter 16. The nitrogen cycle
  22. Chapter 17. The water budget
  23. Chapter 18. Fertility of grassland soils
  24. Chapter 19. Exploitation and management of grassland in the Bohemian-Moravian Uplands
  25. Chapter 20. Functioning of grasslands in the landscape
  26. Bibliography
  27. Subject index