Ecology
of Siberian Dwarf Pine Pinus Pumila (Pallas) Regel in Kamchatka
General
Survey
Peter A. Khomentovsky (Reviewed by Jerry Rehfeldt; reviewed and
edited by Jim Pojar)
ISBN 978-1-57808-189-9; 2004; 244 pages; US $ 99.70
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This book would be particularly valuable to
researchers in the fields of ecology, forestry, botany, and universities and
scientific forest institutes. It includes 70 illustrations, 17 tables, and
442 bibliography.
. Introduction: The urgency of
nature-management problems; Research needed; Investigations of
P. Pumila
. Pinus Pumila: Taxonomic position, range, and
relations in Boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere: Taxonomic Position
and range; Phylogenetic outline; vicariants
. Pinus Pumila
in the plant cover of Northeastern Asia and Kamchatka: General principles.
More exact defination of notions
Pinus Pumila as an independent
component of Tundra-Forest;
P. Pumila in the Kamchatka vegetation
cover
. History of the
Pinus Pumila formation in
Kamchatka in the late cenozoic (on the basis of palynilogical data):
Appropriateness of using of sporo-pollen spectra and their representativity
in reconstructing the history of the plant cover in the regions; P. Pumila
in the Pliocene;
P. Pumila in the Pleistocene;
P. Pumila in
the Holocene.
. Adaptogenesis of
Pinus. Pumila:
P.
Pumila morphology; Seasonal development of
P. Pumila; P.
Pumila seed production on Kamchatka.
. References:
Illustrations 70, tables 17, bibliography 442
