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The Arctic and Antarctic

The Arctic and Antarctic

The Arctic and Antarctic

Their Division into Geobotanical Areas
Vera D. Aleksandrova
Doris Lvve
June 2009
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    First published in 1977, this is an authoritative work by one of the world's leading ecologists. Aleksandrova's account is a very full one with much detail. The methods of classification are as interesting as the results. A wide variety of floristic, vegetational, structural, faunistic and ecological data, both qualitative and quantitative, are used to diagnose and characterise vegetation units. The vegetation of the Arctic and Antarctic is classified according to diagnostic and characteristic features. The Arctic is divided into two provinces, tundra and polar desert and the Antarctic into subantarctic herbaceous cushion vegetation and antarctic polar desert. The arctic tundra is further subdivided into subarctic with shrubby Betula (Birch) or true arctic tundra without Betula. The end result is an analysis of plant communities in the polar regions that enables ecologists to generalise and, perhaps more important, to limit correctly the scope of that generalisation when it is drawn from careful local studies.

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    June 2009
    Paperback
    9780521114264
    264 pages
    216 × 140 × 15 mm
    0.34kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Translator's foreword
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgements
    • 1. Division of the Arctic into geobotanical areas
    • 2. The geobotanical regions of the Arctic: the tundra region
    • 3. The geobotanical regions of the Arctic: the region of the arctic polar deserts
    • 4. Division of the Antarctic into geobotanical areas
    • Conclusions
    • References
    • List of Latin plant names
    • Index.
      Author
    • Vera D. Aleksandrova
    • Translator
    • Doris Lvve