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ethnobotany --- botany --- ecology --- vegetation --- plant systematics --- Botany --- Biology --- Botany.

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Public policies in France and in Europe obligate decision makers to consider an integrated management of habitats and territories that combines several benefits. This book provides innovative vegetation engineering solutions for reconciling habitat restoration with flood prevention.

Flood control --- flood --- ecology --- watershed --- natural risk --- vegetation --- sediment --- mountain --- erosion

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Plants --- Classification --- Study and teaching. --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Botany

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This aesthetically unique book combines ecological, morphological and anatomical, as well as phylogenetic studies on plant material in a largely unexplored dry mountain region above the timberline. It offers the first comparative analysis of hundreds of plants - annuals, perennial herbs and dwarf shrubs - in an area of 87,000 km2 at altitudes from 2600 to 6150 m above sea level in the Western Himalaya. Characteristic landscape pictures of all major vegetation types and maps show at which locations and altitudes the individual species of vascular plants are distributed, while macroscopic plant pictures and plant age are related to high-quality micro-sections and micro-photographs. The anatomical features of 345 dicotyledons were characterized using the published coding systems and those of 155 monocotyledones were characterized on the basis of a newly developed key. The number of annual rings and anatomical features of the xylem and phloem of dicots are compared and related to different ecological conditions within this extremely dry and cold environment. The ecological and anatomical characterization is used to create a phylogenetic tree based on nucleotide sequences, and indicates which features are genetically stable and which ones are modified by environmental factors. The book appeals to scientists in the fields of plant taxonomy, morphology, anatomy and ecology. .

Life sciences. --- Ecosystems. --- Plant ecology. --- Plant anatomy. --- Plant development. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. --- Plant Anatomy/Development. --- Plant Ecology. --- Mountain plants --- Alpine flora --- Alpine plants --- Alpine region plants --- Alpine vegetation --- Alpines (Plants) --- High altitude plants --- High altitude vegetation --- Montane plants --- Mountain flora --- Mountain vegetation --- Mountain wildlife --- Sub-alpine plants --- Sub-alpine vegetation --- Subalpine plants --- Subalpine vegetation --- Plants --- Ecology --- Endangered ecosystems. --- Threatened ecosystems --- Biotic communities --- Nature conservation --- Botany --- Plant structure --- Structural botany --- Vegetable anatomy --- Anatomy --- Structure --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Plant systematics. --- Plant taxonomy. --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Population biology --- Development of plants --- Plant development --- Developmental biology --- Growth (Plants) --- Botanical classification --- Botanical systematics --- Botanical taxonomy --- Classification --- Plant biosystematics --- Plant classification --- Plant systematics --- Plant taxonomy --- Systematic botany --- Systematics (Botany) --- Taxonomy, Plant --- Plant taxonomists --- Ontogeny --- Floristic ecology

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This book is an interdisciplinary module that uses project- and problem-based learning to help young children make discoveries about a range of natural phenomena. It steers students toward authentic problem solving while grounding them in integrated STEM disciplines.

Seasons --- Plants --- Study and teaching (Elementary) --- Seasonal variations --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Botany --- Astronomical geography --- Astronomy --- Climatology --- Meteorology