Basic BiogeographyBasic considerations. Introduction. Inital approaches to vegetation study. Inital approaches to soil study. Plant dynamics and the nature of vegetation. Ecosystems. Ecological factors and environmental variations. distubed ecosystems. Selected examples from the British Isles. The vegetation. The soils. The impact of man. |
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Nigel Pears. Cairngorm Mountains where the highest pine stumps buried in the peat have been radiocarbon - dated by ... Cairngorm Mountains , Scotland Altitude Site Grid ref . ( m ) Sample position Date * Carn Mor 028.907 610 ( a ) basal ...
Nigel Pears. Cairngorm Mountains where the highest pine stumps buried in the peat have been radiocarbon - dated by ... Cairngorm Mountains , Scotland Altitude Site Grid ref . ( m ) Sample position Date * Carn Mor 028.907 610 ( a ) basal ...
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... Cairngorm Mountains where Watt and Jones recognized three main altitudinal zones above the forest edge ( Fig . 8.22 ) : the Calluna zone , the Empetrum - Vaccinium zone and the Juncus zone ( and snow - patch vegetation ) . The ...
... Cairngorm Mountains where Watt and Jones recognized three main altitudinal zones above the forest edge ( Fig . 8.22 ) : the Calluna zone , the Empetrum - Vaccinium zone and the Juncus zone ( and snow - patch vegetation ) . The ...
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... Cairngorm Mountains but most of the findings are of general application because many other parts of the British Isles have recently had a similar experience , e.g. the Lake District , Dartmoor and the Peak District . In the Cairngorms ...
... Cairngorm Mountains but most of the findings are of general application because many other parts of the British Isles have recently had a similar experience , e.g. the Lake District , Dartmoor and the Peak District . In the Cairngorms ...
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Initial approaches to vegetation study | 11 |
Initial approaches to soil study | 28 |
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