Morphotope

The position of the Morphotope / Morphosystem within the Ecotope / Ecosystem.

The Morphotope describes a range of uniform geomophographic factors such as relief, slope and exposure, it is the smallest definable unit of a region of uniform geomorphology . A morphotope is one of the basic units of a geotope or ecotope in the context of landscape ecology .

One possible synonym is morphofacies.

literature

H. Readers: Landscape Ecology . Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8252-0521-5 , pp. 145, 147.

Individual evidence

↑ Morphotope. In: Lexicon of Geosciences. (Spektrum.de , accessed on April 4, 2016)
↑ Uta Steinhardt, Oswald Blumenstein, Heiner Barsch: Textbook of Landscape Ecology. 2nd Edition. Springer-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8274-2397-9 , p. 156.
↑ Hartmut readers: 3rd meeting of the IGU commission for geomorphological recording and mapping. 1971, pp. 66-69. doi: 10.3112 / geography. 1971.01.07
^ Johannes F. Gellert in Hari Shanker Sharma: Perspectives in Geomorphology. Concept Publishing, 1981, OCLC 504241629 , p. 236.

[1] Morphotope. In: Lexicon of Geosciences. (Spektrum.de , accessed on April 4, 2016)

[2] Uta Steinhardt, Oswald Blumenstein, Heiner Barsch: Textbook of Landscape Ecology. 2nd Edition. Springer-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8274-2397-9 , p. 156.

[3] Hartmut readers: 3rd meeting of the IGU commission for geomorphological recording and mapping. 1971, pp. 66-69. doi: 10.3112 / geography. 1971.01.07

[4] Johannes F. Gellert in Hari Shanker Sharma: Perspectives in Geomorphology. Concept Publishing, 1981, OCLC 504241629 , p. 236.