Tropical alpine environments : plant form and function

List of contributors Preface 1. Introduction to tropical alpine vegetation A. P. Smith 2. Tropical alpine climates P. W. Rundel 3. Paramo microclimate and leaf thermal balance of Andean giant rosette plants F. C. Meinzer, G. Goldstein and F. Rada 4. Comparative water relations of tropical alpine plants F. C. Meinzer, G. Goldstein and P. W. Rundel 5. Cold tolerance in tropical alpine plants E. Beck 6. Anatomy of tropical alpine plants S. Carlquist 7. Environmental biology of a tropical treeline species, polylepis sericea G. Goldstein, F. C. Meinzer and F. Rada 8. Morphological and physiological radiation in paramo draba W. A. Pfitsch 9. Sediment-based carbon nutrition in tropical alpine isoetes J. E. Keeley, D. A. DeMason, R. Gonzalez and K. R. Markham 10. Functional significance of inflorescence pubescence in tropical alpine species of Puya G. A. Miller 11. Turnover and conservation of nutrients in the pachycaul senecio keniodendron E. Beck 12. Soil nutrient dynamics in East African alpine ecosystems H. Rehder 13. An overview of the reproductive biology of espeletia (Asteraceae) in the Venezuelan Andes P. E. Berry and R. Calvo 14. Population biology of Mount Kenya lobelias T. P. Young 15. Population biology of Senecio kenodendron (Asteraceae), an Afroalpine giant rosette plant A. P. Smith and T. P. Young 16. Population dynamics and flowering in a Hawaiian alpine rosette plant, Argyroxiphium sandiwicense P. W. Rundel and M. S. Witter 17. Plant form and function in alpine New Guinea R. J. Hnatiuk 18. Alpine herbivory on Mount Kenya T. P. Young and A. P. Smith 19. Biotic interactions in Hawaiian high elevation ecosystems L. L. Loope and A. C. Medeiros 20. Tropical alpine ecology: progress and priorities P. W. Rundel, F. C. Meinzer and A. P. Smith Index.