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The book contains detailed descriptions of the unique desert
environment with particular emphasis on vegetation and survival
strategies of plants. Nine expeditions through the Southwest of
Western Australia over a period of 15 years triggered the interest
of the authors to explore also some deserts in the region, which
leads to three further excursions into the sandy dunes of the
desert. Observations of plant life in the deserts focused not only
on identifying plants, but also on gaining some understanding of
the aboriginal desert people of centuries past, and their own
survival strategies in such extreme conditions. Also part of the
Canning Stock Route was followed and explored, but the most
rewarding and interesting finds were done criss-crossing the desert
away from highways, tracks, and paths. The most remote areas showed
species richness and surviving strategies which by far exceeded
expectations.
This book describes the mountain forests of East Asia (Korea,
Japan, China and Taiwan), the tree layers of which contain
different species of the genus Fagus. The vegetation is primarily
deciduous in the northern regions, whereas in South China evergreen
trees can also be found: a total of 21 plant communities are
described, with data on species composition, dominance,
geographical distribution and ecology. A general comparison is
provided by synoptic Table 1, which details the frequencies of ca.
1500 species growing in the Fagus forests; biodiversity and
evolution are discussed. The book, which is the fruit of a major
international collaboration, presents a synthesis of extended
original investigations by the authors and hardly accessible
specialist literature.
This book describes the mountain forests of East Asia (Korea,
Japan, China and Taiwan), the tree layers of which contain
different species of the genus Fagus. The vegetation is primarily
deciduous in the northern regions, whereas in South China evergreen
trees can also be found: a total of 21 plant communities are
described, with data on species composition, dominance,
geographical distribution and ecology. A general comparison is
provided by synoptic Table 1, which details the frequencies of ca.
1500 species growing in the Fagus forests; biodiversity and
evolution are discussed. The book, which is the fruit of a major
international collaboration, presents a synthesis of extended
original investigations by the authors and hardly accessible
specialist literature.
(RANKIN) of equivocation information (1-: ) and interaction
information (M). The method is described in the present paper for
I: and in a previous paper (Orloci, 1976) for M. The results
presented in this paper suggest that for Species Rank order
Information Percentage of total* species to be weighted according
to their suitability to I. M I M r M characterize isolated groups
of releves in a phytosociolo 5 7 54.15 2.31 17.97 0.82 gical table,
the equivocation information may serve as a 9 5 49.86 23.19 16.55
8.22 3 3 9 47.79 0.56 15.86 0.20 suitable weight. The appropriate
formulations are derived 6 4 8 36.18 1.18 12.01 0.42 4 5 3 24.36
59.34 8.09 21.03 and computed for some data from a salt marsh
community. 8 6 4 24.25 39.04 8.05 13.84 10 7 I 21.96 71.17 7.29
25.23 7 8 2 18.67 69.01 6.20 24.46 9 10 18.40 6.11 10 6 5.64 16.31
1.87 5.78 References Total 301.00* 282.11 * 100.00 100.00 Feoli, E.
1973. An index for weighing characters in monothetic
classifications. (Italian with English summary). Giorn. Bot. Ita '
107: 263-268. Gower, J.e. 1967. A comparison of some methods of
cluster is a monotone, increasing function of sample size if .. )."
The book contains detailed descriptions of the unique desert
environment with particular emphasis on vegetation and survival
strategies of plants. Nine expeditions through the Southwest of
Western Australia over a period of 15 years triggered the interest
of the authors to explore also some deserts in the region, which
leads to three further excursions into the sandy dunes of the
desert. Observations of plant life in the deserts focused not only
on identifying plants, but also on gaining some understanding of
the aboriginal desert people of centuries past, and their own
survival strategies in such extreme conditions. Also part of the
Canning Stock Route was followed and explored, but the most
rewarding and interesting finds were done criss-crossing the desert
away from highways, tracks, and paths. The most remote areas showed
species richness and surviving strategies which by far exceeded
expectations.
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