Introduction to World Vegetation
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1988.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 1988. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3935-7 |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Environmental and ecological principles
- 1 Land plants, evolution and geography
- 2 The geological record and past distributions
- 3 Ecology, biogeography and energy variations
- 4 Nutrients and nutrient cycles
- 5 Ecosystem conditions and plant distributions
- 6 Soil conditions and their influence on plant distributions
- 7 Plants in communities and their distributions
- 2 The vegetation of tropical and temperate regions
- 8 Vegetation and climate: an introduction to world vegetation patterns
- 9 Tropical forests
- 10 Tropical formations with conspicuous grasslands: savannas
- 11 The temperate deciduous forests
- 12 The coniferous forests of the Northern Hemisphere
- 13 The temperate grasslands
- 3 The vegetation of extreme habitats
- 14 Adaptations and selective factors: an introduction
- 15 Vegetation of arid lands
- 16 Wetlands
- 17 Arctic and alpine tundra
- 18 The vegetation of estuaries and sea shores
- Conclusion
- Indexes.