S R Eyre

Vegetation and Soils

A World Picture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vegetation and Soils is an introduction to the study of vegetation and soil distribution

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781138540262
• ISBN-10: 1138540269
• Artikelnr.: 50496292

Autorenporträt

S. R. Eyre

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Vegetation and Soil Development
Chapter I: The Original Landscape and the Hand of Man
Chapter II: Vegetation Development
Chapter III: Soil Development
Part Two: Vegetation and Soils Outside the Tropics
Chapter IV: Coniferous Forests
Chapter V: The Mixed Forests of Middle Latitudes
Chapter VI: Broad-leaved Forests of Middle Latitudes
Chapter VII: The Evolution of Extra-Tropical Forests
Chapter VIII: Tundra and Alpine Vegetation
Chapter IX: Grasslands
Chapter X: Woodlands and Scrublands
Part Three: The British Isles
Chapter XI: The Climatic Climax Vegetation and its Associated Soils
Chapter XII: Seres and Subclimaxes on the Original Landscape
Chapter XIII: The Impact of Man
Part Four: Tropical Regions
Chapter XIV: Introduction to Tropical Vegetation and Soils
Chapter XV: Tropical Rain Forest
Chapter XVI: Tropical Seasonal Forests
Chapter XVII: Microphyllous Forest, Semi-desert and Desert
Chapter XVIII: Tropical Savanna
Chapter XIX: Tropical Soils subject to Seasonal Drought
Chapter XX: The Vegetation of Tropical Mountains
Conclusion
Chapter XXI: The Outlook for Wild Nature