Basic BiogeographyFirst published in 1985. This is the is the second edition of a study looking at ecology and biogeography with updated chapters including current research. It starts with the with the study of plants to gain an understanding of the complexities of ecological relationships. |
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... processes (climatology). We seek not simply to describe these patterns but also to explain them: the question 'Where?5 must be followed by the question 'Why?5. Biologists also ask these same questions. If past or present global ...
... processes (climatology). We seek not simply to describe these patterns but also to explain them: the question 'Where?5 must be followed by the question 'Why?5. Biologists also ask these same questions. If past or present global ...
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... processes operating at the interface between the atmosphere and the lithosphere (e.g. microclimates, soil properties). Plants are good site indicators and modify many habitat factors, creating a background or environment for the ...
... processes operating at the interface between the atmosphere and the lithosphere (e.g. microclimates, soil properties). Plants are good site indicators and modify many habitat factors, creating a background or environment for the ...
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... processes are involved. Man's basic crops (wheat, barley, maize, etc.) have been in existence for several thousand years. Only recently have we begun a systematic study of man's relationship with these crop plants. Now, for the first ...
... processes are involved. Man's basic crops (wheat, barley, maize, etc.) have been in existence for several thousand years. Only recently have we begun a systematic study of man's relationship with these crop plants. Now, for the first ...
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... process in morphological terms. Cryptogams are non-flowering plants and reproduction is by means of spores rather than seeds; the whole reproductive apparatus is rather inconspicuous or hidden, making up a small, less obvious part of ...
... process in morphological terms. Cryptogams are non-flowering plants and reproduction is by means of spores rather than seeds; the whole reproductive apparatus is rather inconspicuous or hidden, making up a small, less obvious part of ...
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... process leads to plant growth in the mass or simply vegetation. Vegetation can usually be subdivided into groups of plants, i.e. certain combinations of species which grow together. These are not random assem blages since the same or ...
... process leads to plant growth in the mass or simply vegetation. Vegetation can usually be subdivided into groups of plants, i.e. certain combinations of species which grow together. These are not random assem blages since the same or ...
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