Research Catalog

Title

The phytogeography of northern Europe : British Isles, Fennoscandia, and adjacent areas / by Eilif Dahl.

Author

Dahl, Eilif, 1916-

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xii, 297 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Summary

Eilif Dahl died in 1993 but his approach to plant geography went far beyond descriptions of distribution patterns and he brings his wide range of interests to bear in this study of the phytogeography of northern Europe.

Subject

• Phytogeography > Europe, Northern
• Plant ecology > Europe, Northern
• Phytogeography
• Plant ecology
• Pflanzengeografie
• Plantengeografie
• Phytogéographie > Europe du Nord
• Écologie végétale > Europe du Nord
• Northern Europe
• Nordeuropa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-268) and index.

Contents

Preface / John Birks -- 1. Introduction. The interpretation of plant distribution patterns. The experimental approach. The field approach. Climatic correlations. Floristic elements -- 2. Climate -- 3. Edaphic factors -- 4. The geological history of the present European flora. The late Tertiary. The Pleistocene. The maximum Pleistocene glaciation. The Weichselian glacial stage. The late-glacial period. The immigration of the flora after the Weichselian glacial stage -- 5. The atlantic and oceanic elements. The atlantic element. The oceanic element of bryophytes and lichens -- 6. The thermophilic element. Introduction. Timber-lines. Respiration and growth. Calculation of respiration sums. The Iversen thermal-limit diagrams.

ISBN

• 0521383587
• 9780521383585

LCCN

96037970

OCLC

• ocm36045920
• 36045920
• SCSB-9559694

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library