Plant geography / Martin C. Kellman.

• Introduction -- PART 1. THE GEOGRAPHY OF PLANT SPECIES -- The plant species and its ecological properties -- Environmental control of plant species’ distributions -- Plant mobility and species’ ranges -- PART 2. THE GEOGRAPHY OF VEGETATION -- Vegetation as an object of study -- Vegetation data gathering -- Vegetation analysis -- PART 3. OTHER THEMES IN PLANT GEOGRAPHY -- Terrestrial vegetation history -- Plants and ecosystems: transformations of matter and energy by plants -- Man’s impact on the plant landscape -- Postscript. 

• This book is an introduction to modern plant geography for geographyb students whose background is very limited. It concentrates on distributional problem's of the earth's plant cover taken either as a whole - the geography of vegetation - or as separate components - the geography of species. Significant developments in the field have taken place within the biological sciences in recent years, and the author has incorporated these developments into a comprehensive framework that includes some historical perspectives on the subject. 

Ämnesord

Växtgeografi  (sao)

Växtekologi  (sao)

Phytogeography.  (LCSH)

Plant ecology.  (LCSH)

Phytogeography  (lcsh)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Uf.07 Botanik: växtgeografi

Klassifikation

581.9 (DDC)

Uf.07 (kssb/7)