Research Catalog

Title

World vegetation types / edited by S.R. Eyre.

Publication

New York, Columbia University Press, 1971.

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Details

Additional Authors

Eyre, S. R.

Description

264 pages illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

This anthology comprises twenty-one extracts from the works of authorities on the main vegetation types of the earth. The editor has given prominence to certain plant communities because particular problems exist regarding their ecological status or regeneration processes; consequently there are as many as six extracts dealing with mid-latitude grasslands but only one on coniferous forests. The concept of convergent evolution is another fundamental topic in vegetation studies, and, since this is illustrated so well by the sclerophyllous scrub formations in the mid-latitude areas of winter rain and summer drought, four passages dealing with this type of community are included here.

Subject

• Phytogeography
• Plant ecology
• Phytogeography
• Plant ecology
• Pflanzen
• Ökosystem

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [255]-264.

Contents

The structure of tropical rain forest, by P.W. Richards. -- Regeneration patterns in the closed forest of Ivory Coast, by A. Aubréville. -- The seasonal forests of Trinidad, by J.S. Beard. -- An example of Sudan Zone vegetation in Nigeria, by R.W.J. Keay. -- The Montane vegetation of New Guinea, by R.G. Robbins. -- The vegetation of the Imatong Mountains, Sudan, by J.K. Jackson. -- The subtropical and subantarctic rain forests of New Zealand, by L. Cockayne. -- Coniferous forests of North America, by J.E. Weaver and F.E. Clements. -- The broad-sclerophyll vegetation of California, by W.S. Cooper. -- The mountain and south-western flora of South Africa, by J.W. Bews. -- Floristics and ecology of the Mallee, by J.G. Wood. -- The thickets and woods of the Mediterranean region, by H. Harant and D. Jarry. -- Grassland climax, by C.O. Sauer. -- The origin of mixed prairie, by J.E. Weaver and F.W. Albertson. -- The steppe and forest steppe of European Russia, by B.A. Keller. -- The parkland or grove belt of Alberta, by E.H. Moss. -- Climatic change or cultural interference? by K.B. Cumberland. -- The eastern grassveld region, by J.W. Bews. -- The Sonoran desert, by J.R. Hastings and R.M. Turner. -- The deserts of Dzungaria and the Tarim basin, by E.M. Murzayev. -- Vegetational types of polar lands, by N. Polunin.

ISBN

• 0231035039
• 9780231035033

LCCN

78147779

OCLC

• ocm00156210
• 156210
• SCSB-294299

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library