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 $ 99.95
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.
Contents:. 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
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