Plant Geography Of North America

Author : Rexford Daubenmire
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 032315493X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plant Geography written by Rexford Daubenmire and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Steven P. McLaughlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781889878171
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tundra to Tropics written by Steven P. McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. L. Bray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plant Geography of North America written by W. L. Bray and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. R. Orme
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195111071
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Physical Geography of North America written by A. R. Orme and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the second in the UK-originated series, Antony Orme and Andrew Goudie, eds., Physical Environments of the World, following The Physical Geography of Africa (Feb. 1996). The aim of the series is to present a "relatively durable statement of physical conditions on the continents" written by a team of specialists. In common with the other volumes in the series the book is divided into three parts: (I) systematic coverage of the main components of the physical environment, (II) regional treatment based on the biome concept, and (III) human responses to the physical landscape. The book is intended to fill a void in recent geographic literature by providing an interpretive work that integrates knowledge "across the environment" while placing recent discoveries in a human context. Using tectonism as an example, Orme writes that this topic "will not be viewed as an end in itself, but as a series of processes and crustal adjustments that have significant implication for climate change and plant and animal migrations." The contributing authors are among the most active and best in their fields in the United States and Canada.

Author : Ronald L. Stuckey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on North American plant geography from the nineteenth century written by Ronald L. Stuckey and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andres Moreira-Munoz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048187486
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plant Geography of Chile written by Andres Moreira-Munoz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Martin C. Kellman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plant Geography written by Martin C. Kellman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald L. Stuckey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on North American Plant Geography from the Nineteenth Century written by Ronald L. Stuckey and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John William Harshberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Die Vegetation der Erde written by John William Harshberger and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas Houghton Campbell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Outline of Plant Geography written by Douglas Houghton Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: