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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... patterns . This variation in distribution of plants , animals and soil provides a spatial pattern for study as fundamental as the variations in rock type ( geology ) , land forms ( geomorphology ) or atmospheric processes ( climatology ) ...
... patterns . This variation in distribution of plants , animals and soil provides a spatial pattern for study as fundamental as the variations in rock type ( geology ) , land forms ( geomorphology ) or atmospheric processes ( climatology ) ...
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... pattern - as one of increasing closeness of fit to the actual pattern of vegetation ( i.e. decreasing degree of abstraction ) . - Whittaker's concept recognized the point made earlier by Gleason on the individualistic nature of the ...
... pattern - as one of increasing closeness of fit to the actual pattern of vegetation ( i.e. decreasing degree of abstraction ) . - Whittaker's concept recognized the point made earlier by Gleason on the individualistic nature of the ...
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... pattern of our changing vegetation in the period following the last glacial phase ( the Post - glacial , Post - Devensian or Flandrian , see Table 8.2 ) . Controversy is largely centred on the finer details within Table 8.2 Subdivisions ...
... pattern of our changing vegetation in the period following the last glacial phase ( the Post - glacial , Post - Devensian or Flandrian , see Table 8.2 ) . Controversy is largely centred on the finer details within Table 8.2 Subdivisions ...
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Introduction | 3 |
Initial approaches to vegetation study | 11 |
Initial approaches to soil study | 28 |
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