The Ecology of Areas with Serpentinized Rocks (eBook, PDF)

A World View
Redaktion: Roberts, B. A.; Proctor, J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 429
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401137225
• Artikelnr.: 43983591

Inhaltsangabe

Section I Introduction.
I. Introduction.
Section II Geology.
II. Serpentine and the geology of serpentinized rocks.
Section III North America.
III. Plant life of western North American ultramafics.
IV. Ecology of serpentinized areas, Newfoundland, Canada.
V. A phyto
ecological investigation of the Mount Albert serpentinized plateau.
Section IV Europe.
VI. Chemical and ecological studies on the vegetation of ultramafic sites in Britain.
VII. The ecology of serpentinized areas of north
east Portugal.
VIII. Distribution of serpentinized massives on the Balkan peninsulas and their ecology.
IX. The distribution and ecology of the vegetation of ultramafic soils in Italy.
Section V Far East and Japan.
X. The vegetation over ultramafic rocks in the tropical Far East.
XI. The distribution and extent of serpentinized areas in Japan.
Section VI Africa.
XII. The ecology of ultramafic areas in Zimbabwe.
XIII. The vegetation over mafic and ultramafic rocks in the Transvaal Lowveld, South Africa.
Section VII Australasia.
XIV. The vegetation of the greenstone belts of Western Australia.
XV. The serpentinized areas of New Zealand, their structure and ecology.
Section VIII.
XVI. Concluding remarks.

Rezensionen

` The book will become a standard reference for all those interested in soil-plant relationships and will provide a stimulus for further research in this aspect of biogeography and geobotany. '
Science

` ... to congratulate the editors on producing this excellent and exhaustive work on the ecology of world regions with serpentinized rocks. I am sure that this exciting and hiterhto neglected field will be well served and encouraged by the appearance of this important work. '
New Zealand Jrnl of Ecology, 16:2

` The book will become a standard reference for all those interested in soil-plant relationships and will provide a stimulus for further research in this aspect of biogeography and geobotany. ' Science ` ... to congratulate the editors on producing this excellent and exhaustive work on the ecology of world regions with serpentinized rocks. I am sure that this exciting and hiterhto neglected field will be well served and encouraged by the appearance of this important work. ' New Zealand Jrnl of Ecology, 16:2