Ebook: The Ecology of Areas with Serpentinized Rocks: A World View

` 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

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Serpentine and the geology of serpentinized rocks....Pages 7-30
Plant life of western North American ultramafics....Pages 31-73
Ecology of serpentinized areas, Newfoundland, Canada....Pages 75-113
A phyto-ecological investigation of the Mount Albert serpentine plateau....Pages 115-133
Chemical and ecological studies on the vegetation of ultramafic sites in Britain....Pages 135-167
Ecology of serpentinized areas of north-east Portugal....Pages 169-197
Distribution of serpentinized massives on the Balkan peninsula and their ecology....Pages 199-215
The distribution and ecology of the vegetation of ultramafic soils in Italy....Pages 217-247
The vegetation over ultramafic rocks in the tropical far east....Pages 249-270
The distribution and extent of serpentinized areas in Japan....Pages 271-311
The ecology of ultramafic areas in Zimbabwe....Pages 313-331
The vegetation over mafic and ultramafic rocks in the Transvaal Lowveld, South Africa....Pages 333-342
The vegetation of the greenstone belts of Western Australia....Pages 343-373
New Zealand Ultramafics....Pages 375-417
Concluding remarks....Pages 419-420
Back Matter....Pages 421-429

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Serpentine and the geology of serpentinized rocks....Pages 7-30
Plant life of western North American ultramafics....Pages 31-73
Ecology of serpentinized areas, Newfoundland, Canada....Pages 75-113
A phyto-ecological investigation of the Mount Albert serpentine plateau....Pages 115-133
Chemical and ecological studies on the vegetation of ultramafic sites in Britain....Pages 135-167
Ecology of serpentinized areas of north-east Portugal....Pages 169-197
Distribution of serpentinized massives on the Balkan peninsula and their ecology....Pages 199-215
The distribution and ecology of the vegetation of ultramafic soils in Italy....Pages 217-247
The vegetation over ultramafic rocks in the tropical far east....Pages 249-270
The distribution and extent of serpentinized areas in Japan....Pages 271-311
The ecology of ultramafic areas in Zimbabwe....Pages 313-331
The vegetation over mafic and ultramafic rocks in the Transvaal Lowveld, South Africa....Pages 333-342
The vegetation of the greenstone belts of Western Australia....Pages 343-373
New Zealand Ultramafics....Pages 375-417
Concluding remarks....Pages 419-420
Back Matter....Pages 421-429
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