Books by Christian Korner

The book covers the characteristics of alpine plant life, alpine climate and soils, life under snow, stress tolerance, treeline ecology, plant water, carbon, and nutrient relations, plant growth and productivity, developmental processes, and two largely novel chapters on alpine plant reproduction and global change biology.

Covers the first global conference on mountain biodiversity. This work includes 27 chapters that represent research on the biological riches in the various major mountain ranges of the world, and synthesizes knowledge on mountain biodiversity - from diversity of bacteria, plants and animals to human diversity.