Lamto

History of the Lamto Ecology Station and Ecological Studies at Lamto.- History of the Lamto Ecology Station and Ecological Studies at Lamto.- The Environment.- Geology, Landform, and Soils.- Climate.- Environmental Constraints on Living Organisms.- Vegetation.- Structure and Functioning of Plant Cover.- Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Exchanges.- Biomass Cycle and Primary Production.- Tree/Grass Interactions.- Modeling the Relationships between Vegetation Structure and Functioning, and Modeling Savanna Functioning from Plot to Region.- Modification of the Savanna Functioning by Herbivores.- Carbon Cycle and Soil Organic Matter Dynamics.- Origin, Distribution, and Composition of Soil Organic Matter.- Soil Carbon and Organic Matter Dynamics.- Perturbations of Soil Carbon Dynamics by Soil Fauna.- The Nitrogen Cycle.- Nitrogen Inputs to and Outputs from the Soil-Plant System.- Nitrogen Dynamics in the Soil-Plant System.- Role of Soil Fauna in Nitrogen Cycling.- Plant Community Dynamics.- Spatial Pattern, Dynamics, and Reproductive Biology of the Grass Community.- Structure, Long-Term Dynamics, and Demography of the Tree Community.- Modeling Tree and Grass Dynamics: From Demographic to Spatially Explicit Models.- Toward an Integration of Savanna Structure, Functioning, and Dynamics.- A Synthetic Overview of Lamto Savanna Ecology: Importance of Structure-Functioning-Dynamics Relationships.- Perspectives: From the Lamto Experience to Critical Issues for Savanna Ecology Research.

From the reviews:



"This new volume is good news for savanna ecologists. It is a summary and integration of some four decades of ecological research in the savanna of Lamto in Ivory Coast, West Africa. ... a most interesting book that is of great value to savanna ecologists. ... This is a very valuable and interesting book which I certainly recommend to all savanna ecologists, and I congratulate the authors with their achievement." (Marinus J. A. Werger, Phytocoenologia, Vol. 38 (1-2), August, 2008)