Plant Migration : The Dynamics of Geographic Patterning in Seed Plant Species /

Show other versions (1)

Using cases of plant migration documented by both historical and fossil evidence, Jonathan D. Sauer provides a landmark assessment of what is presently known, and not merely assumed, about the process.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sauer, Jonathan D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1988.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Vegetation dynamics.
Plants > Migration.
Phytogeography.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
NATURE > Plants > General.
Phytogeographie.
Vegetation > Dynamique.
Plantes > Migration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Concept of Migration in Seed Plants
  • Model of the Mechanisms of Geographic Patterning in Seed Plants
  • Problems of Scale
  • Limitations of the Data Base
  • Exclusion of Artificially Controlled Migrations
  • Definition of Weeds
  • Definition of Natives
  • Modern and Historical Migrations
  • Shoreline and Other Naturally Open Habitats
  • Mangrove Swamps
  • River Deltas, Southern Gulf of Mexico
  • Coral Cays, Belize
  • Great Barrier Reef, Queensland
  • Naturalized Mangroves, Hawaii
  • Naturalization of Avicennia, California
  • Tropical Sea Beaches
  • Coral Cays, Belize
  • Coral Sand Beaches, Mauritius
  • Pyroclastic Beaches, Krakatau
  • Introduced Indo-Pacific Species, Mauritius
  • Transfers Between Old and New Worlds
  • Temperate Sea Beaches and Dunes
  • Mid-Atlantic Barrier Islands, United States
  • Mustang Island, Texas
  • Intercontinental Migration of Ammophila
  • Naturalization of Chrysanthemoides, Australia
  • Naturalization of Mesembryanthemum, California
  • Naturalization of Cakile, Australia and Western North America
  • Salt Marshes
  • Limited Successions in Coastal Marshes, Britain
  • Limited Successions in Coastal Marshes, California
  • Primary Succession on a Mediterranean Lagoon, France
  • Natural Colonization of Artificial Inland Salt Marshes, Europe and North America
  • Naturalized Exotics, California
  • Freshwater Aquatic Habitats
  • Vernal Pools, California
  • Intercontinental Migrations of Elodea and Hydrilla
  • Intercontinental Migrations of Eichhornia and Alternanthera
  • Riparian Habitats.

Similar Items