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  • Book
    Aaron S. Dumont, Jason Sheehan, Giuseppe Lanzino.
    Digital Access Thieme MedOne Neurosurgery 2018
  • Book
    Jack Rieley, Susan Page.
    Summary: This aims to be a comprehensive book which describes the plant communities of the British Isles in a straightforward manner. It also integrates information on the role of environmental factors in determining the British vegetation into the main text. The combined action of various environmental factors determines both the structure and distribution of plant communities. It is logical, therefore, to commence the book and individual chapters with information on the climatic, edaphic and biotic factors which influence plant community structure and distribution. Prominence is also given in appropriate chapters, to the importance of ancilliary factors, for example, anthropogenic pressures and the effects of increasing altitude and latitude. These introductory sections are succeeded by descriptions of the principal plant communities of woodland, grassland, heath, freshwater wetland, peatland, salt marsh, sand dune, mountain and urban ecosystems. A few communites of restricted and localized distribution have been omitted. The phytosociological approach to plant community description and classification has been adopted throughout and the associated nomenclature to indicate the various levels in the hierarchial classification are used wherever possible. Nielsen 9780582446397 20160527

    Contents:
    Part 1 Introduction - factors influencing plant distribution: abiotic factors
    biotic factors
    succession. Part 2 Soils: soil composition
    physical and chemical properties of soils
    the soil profile
    soil types of the British Isles - zonal, intrazonal and azonal soils. Part 3 Phytosociology: methodology
    nomenclature
    synopsis of the higher classificatory units of the British vegetation. Part 4 The major plant formations of the world: tundra
    taiga
    temperate forests
    temperate grasslands
    tropical forests
    savannah
    tropical scrub
    desert
    alpine vegetation. Part 5 Woodlands, grassland and heaths: vegetation history
    woodlands
    grasslands
    dry heaths. Part 6 Freshwater aquatic and swamp vegetation: running waters
    standing waters
    the hydrosere
    the vegetation of the freshwater lakes, rivers and swamps -large and small pondweeds (Magnopotametalia and Parvopotametalia), shallow, acid water communities (Luronio-Potametalia) littoral zone communities of oligotrophic waters (Littorelletea), emergent reed and tall-sedge vegetation (Phragmitetea), spring-heads (Montio-Cardaminetea, low sedge communities of transition mires and calcareous fens and flushes (Parvocaricetea), alder swamps on peat, alder buckthorn and willow carr (Franguletea), river bank willow scrub (Salicetea purpureae). Part 7 Ombrotrophic mires: the ombrotrophic environment
    ombrotrophic mire types and their distribution in Britain
    vegetation of ombrotrophic mires. Part 8 Salt marshes and sand dunes: salt marshes
    vegetation of saline soils
    sand dunes. Part 9 Influence of altitude and latitude on vegetation: environmental factors of high altitudes and latitudes
    plant modifications to mountain and northern environments
    arctic and alpine elements of the British flora
    vegetation of upland and northern Britain. Part 10 The urban ecosystem: the urban environment
    urban habitats
    urban plants
    vegetation of the urban environment. Nielsen 9780582446397 20160527
    Print 1990
  • Article
    Klee W.
    Dtsch Tierarztl Wochenschr. 1977 Nov 05;84(11):428-31.
    Digital Access Access Options