Plant Geography

Author : Rexford Daubenmire
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323154932

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Plant Geography by Rexford Daubenmire Pdf

Plant Geography: With Special Reference to North America covers main concepts of the two major approaches to plant geography, namely, the floristic plant geography and the ecologic plant geography. Floristic plant geography primarily studies evolutionary divergence, migration, and decline of taxa, as influenced by past events of the earth’s history. Ecologic plant geography is an alternative approach to plant geography, which takes plant communities as units having ranges to be interpreted, dominated by sociologic and physiologic, rather than phylogenetic and historic considerations. Under the floristic plant geography part, topics covered include interrelations among floristic plant geography, taxonomy, and geology; the relation between plant dissemination and migration; evidence of the dynamic character of plant ranges; and migratory route. After a brief introduction to the evolution of North and South America vegetation, the book discusses the ecologic plant geography section that focuses on various vegetation regions in North America, including Tundra, subarctic-subalpine forest, temperate mesophytic, xerophytic forest, and chaparral and steppe regions and temperate affinity forests in Middle America. Other regions examined include the desert and marine regions, as well as the microphyllous woodland, tropical savanna, rain forest, and tropical alpine. With great information on geologic history of each vegetation unit and paleontology, this book will be helpful to paleobotanists, historical geologists, and taxonomists.

Author : Martin C. Kellman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Phytogeography
ISBN : UCAL:B4456846

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Plant Geography by Martin C. Kellman Pdf

Author : Andres Moreira-Munoz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048187485

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Plant Geography of Chile by Andres Moreira-Munoz Pdf

The first and so far only Plant Geography of Chile was written about 100 years ago, since when many things have changed: plants have been renamed and reclassified; taxonomy and systematics have experienced deep changes as have biology, geography, and biogeography. The time is therefore ripe for a new look at Chile’s plants and their distribution. Focusing on three key issues – botany/systematics, geography and biogeographical analysis – this book presents a thoroughly updated synthesis both of Chilean plant geography and of the different approaches to studying it. Because of its range – from the neotropics to the temperate sub-Antarctic – Chile’s flora provides a critical insight into evolutionary patterns, particularly in relation to the distribution along the latitudinal profiles and the global geographical relationships of the country’s genera. The consequences of these relations for the evolution of the Chilean Flora are discussed. This book will provide a valuable resource for both graduate students and researchers in botany, plant taxonomy and systematics, biogeography, evolutionary biology and plant conservation.

Author : Philip Stott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000698978

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Historical Plant Geography by Philip Stott Pdf

Originally published in 1981 Historical Plant Geography is an introductory treatment of historical plant geography and stresses the basic theoretical frame of the subject. The book is about neither the study of vegetation nor the concept of the ecosystem, instead focusing on the much older tradition concerned with analysing the geographical distribution of individual species and natural plant groups. Important areas are discussed, such as global plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading, plant maps are introduced and there is a basic treatment of recent advances in plant taxonomy. The book will appeal to students and academics of geography, botany, ecology and environmental sciences.

Author : Alexander von Humboldt,Aimé Bonpland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226360683

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Essay on the Geography of Plants by Alexander von Humboldt,Aimé Bonpland Pdf

The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century, and inspired such essayists and artists as Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Poe, and Church. The chronicles of the expedition were published in Paris after Humboldt’s return, and first among them was the 1807 “Essay on the Geography of Plants.” Among the most cited writings in natural history, after the works of Darwin and Wallace, this work appears here for the first time in a complete English-language translation. Covering far more than its title implies, it represents the first articulation of an integrative “science of the earth, ” encompassing most of today’s environmental sciences. Ecologist Stephen T. Jackson introduces the treatise and explains its enduring significance two centuries after its publication.

Author : Martin Kellman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000877205

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Plant Geography by Martin Kellman Pdf

Originally published in 1975 and in a second edition in 1980, Plant Geography was the first text in biogeography that provided an adequate treatment of modern plant population theory. It is an introduction to the subject for students of both geography and biology. The author develops a series of plant geographic concepts that are based primarily in plant population biology, treating in turn processes that operate at the level of the individual plant and the plant population; interactions between plant populations; environmental conditions and plant dissemination in shaping plant species’ distributions, and the geography of vegetation. Emphasis throughout is placed upon the dynamic nature of the earth’s plant cover, and the interplay between contemporary conditions and historical events in shaping plant distributions and evolution.

Author : Philip Stott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000698251

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Historical Plant Geography by Philip Stott Pdf

Originally published in 1981 Historical Plant Geography is an introductory treatment of historical plant geography and stresses the basic theoretical frame of the subject. The book is about neither the study of vegetation nor the concept of the ecosystem, instead focusing on the much older tradition concerned with analysing the geographical distribution of individual species and natural plant groups. Important areas are discussed, such as global plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading, plant maps are introduced and there is a basic treatment of recent advances in plant taxonomy. The book will appeal to students and academics of geography, botany, ecology and environmental sciences.

Author : W. B. Turrill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401767583

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Pioneer Plant Geography by W. B. Turrill Pdf

Author : Kong Woo-Seok,Paul Watts
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401116244

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The Plant Geography of Korea by Kong Woo-Seok,Paul Watts Pdf

This is the first detailed analysis of the complex and rich vegetation of the mountainous Korean peninsula, which ranges from arctic-alpine to subtropical in character, and in which more than 4500 vascular-plant species have been recorded, including many endemics. It covers both the north and south of the peninsula and, using both past and present records, identifies eight major biogeographic regions. It pays due attention to vegetation history, tracing this back to Miocene times and noting the effects of Pleistocene climatic fluctuations. More recently, detailed climatic variations from 50 B.C. are recorded, along with man's influence on vegetation patterns. Special mention is made of the present arctic-alpine communities, their structural and floristic characteristics, their origins, and their vulnerability to current global warming. Throughout the relationships between Korean vegetation communities and those present in adjacent East Asia are emphasized along with those key features which make Korean communities distinctly unique.

Author : Martin C. Kellman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Phytogeography
ISBN : 0416812708

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Plant Geography by Martin C. Kellman Pdf

A compact conceptual introduction to plant geography for geography students with limited biological knowledge.

Author : Stanley Adair Cain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Phytogeography
ISBN : WISC:89017972001

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Foundations of Plant Geography by Stanley Adair Cain Pdf

Author : Christen Raunkiaer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Botany
ISBN : OCLC:1077917662

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The life forms of plants and statistical plant geography by Christen Raunkiaer Pdf

Author : Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Phytogeography
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106434053

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Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper Pdf

Author : F. I. Woodward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521282144

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Climate and Plant Distribution by F. I. Woodward Pdf

Correlation between plant distribution and climate is examined over different time and space scales to determine the mechanisms of control in physiological and biochemical terms.

Author : N. I. Vavilov,Vladimir Filimonovich Dorofeev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10-22
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0521404274

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Origin and Geography of Cultivated Plants by N. I. Vavilov,Vladimir Filimonovich Dorofeev Pdf

A collection of all of Vavgilov's works on the origin and geography of cultivated plant species.