Research Catalog

Title

Lamto : structure, functioning, and dynamics of a savanna ecosystem / Luc Abbadie [and others] editors.

Publication

New York : Springer Science+Business Media, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

Abbadie, Luc.

Description

xix, 415 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Ecological studies, 0070-8356 ; v. 179

Uniform Title

Ecological studies ; v. 179.

Subjects

• Savanna ecology > Côte d'Ivoire > Lamto
• Lamto (Côte d'Ivoire)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. History of the Lamto ecology station and ecological studies at Lamto / Roger Vuattoux, Souleymane Konate, Luc Abbadie, Sebastian Barot, Jacques Gignoux and Gaelle Lahoreau -- 2. Geology, landform, and soils / Luc Abbadie and Jean-Claude Menaut -- 3. Climate / Xavier Le Roux -- 4. Environmental constraints of living organisms / Luc Abbadie, Jacques Gignoux, Michael Lepage and Xavier Le Roux -- 5. Vegetation / Jean-Claude Menaut and Luc Abbadie -- 6. Soil-plant-atmosphere exchanges / Xavier Le Roux and Bruno Monteny -- 7. Biomass cycle and primary production / Jacques Gignoux, Patrick Mordelet and Jean-Claude Menaut -- 8. Tree/grass interactions / Patrick Mordelet and Xavier Le Roux -- 9. Modeling the relationships between vegetation structure and functioning, and modeling Savanna functioning from plot to region / Xavier Le Roux, Jacques Gignoux and Guillaume Simioni -- 10. Modification of the Savanna functioning by herbivores / Xavier Le Roux, Luc Abbadie, Herve Fritz and Helene Leriche -- 11. Origin, distribution, and composition of soil organic matter / Luc Abbadie and Hassan Bismarck Nacro -- 12. Soil carbon and organic matter dynamics / Luc Abbadie, Hassan Bismarck Nacro and Jacques Gignoux -- 13. Perturbations of soil carbon dynamics by soil fauna / Michel Lepage, Luc Abbadie, Guy Josens, Souleymane Konate and Patrick Lavelle -- 14. Nitrogen inputs to the outputs from the soil-plant system / Luc Abbadie -- 15. Nitrogen dynamics in the soil-plant system / Luc Abbadie and Jean-Christophe Lata -- 16. Role of soil fauna in nitrogen cycling / Michel Lepage, Luc Abbadie, Guy Josens and Patrick Lavelle -- 17. Spatial pattern, dynamics, and reproductive biology of the grass community / Jacques Gignoux, Isabelle Dajoz, Jacques Durand, Lisa Garnier and Michael Veuille -- 18. Structure, long-term dynamics, and demography of the tree community / Jacques Gignoux, Sebastian Barot, Jean-Claude Menaut and Roger Vuattoux -- 19. Modeling tree and grass dynamics : from demographic to spatially explicit models / Jacques Gignoux and Sebastien Barot -- 20. A synthetic overview of Lamto Savanna ecology : importance of structure-functioning-dynamics relationships / Xavier Le Roux, Luc Abbadie and Jacques Gignoux -- 21. Perspectives : from the Lamto experience to critical issues of Savanna ecology research / Jacques Gignoux, Xavier Le Roux and Luc Abbadie.

ISBN

0387948449

LCCN

2004056572

OCLC

• ocm56413446
• SCSB-5250713

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries