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The Ecology of Areas with Serpentinized Rocks

A World View

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. B. A. Roberts
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  2. J. Proctor
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Part of the book series: Geobotany (GEOB, volume 17)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • B. A. Roberts, J. Proctor
      Pages 1-5

  4. North America

    1. Plant life of western North American ultramafics

      • A. R. Kruckeberg
      Pages 31-73

    2. Ecology of serpentinized areas, Newfoundland, Canada

      • B. A. Roberts
      Pages 75-113

    3. A phyto-ecological investigation of the Mount Albert serpentine plateau

      • L. Sirois, M. M. Grandtner
      Pages 115-133

  6. Far East and Japan

    1. The vegetation over ultramafic rocks in the tropical far east

      • John Proctor
      Pages 249-270

    2. The distribution and extent of serpentinized areas in Japan

      • Naoharu Mizuno, Shiro Nosaka
      Pages 271-311

  8. Australasia

    1. The vegetation of the greenstone belts of Western Australia

      • M. M. Cole
      Pages 343-373

    2. New Zealand Ultramafics

      • W. G. Lee
      Pages 375-417

  9. Concluding Remarks

    1. Concluding remarks

      • B. A. Roberts, J. Proctor
      Pages 419-420

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 421-429
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Reviews

` 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Ecology of Areas with Serpentinized Rocks

  • Book Subtitle: A World View

  • Editors: B. A. Roberts, J. Proctor

  • Series Title: Geobotany

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3722-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0922-2Published: 31 December 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5654-0Published: 22 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3722-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 429

  • Topics: Plant Sciences, Plant Ecology, Soil Science & Conservation

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