Tropical Cloud Forest Ecology in Hainan Island [E-Book]

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.

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.