Author: Yves Laumonier
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: geobotany, sumatra, physiography, vegetation
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 1997-02-28
List price: $369.00
ISBN-10: 0792337611
ISBN-13: 9780792337614

The position of Sumatra as a link between continental South East Asia and the other main Sunda islands has attracted the attention of naturalists and explorers for many centuries, but the biological richness of the island has been somewhat neglected. This volume gives a critical appraisal of the methods used in vegetation survey in the tropics, and in the utilization of geomorphology, pedology, climatology in preparing sampling procedures for the vegetation. The proposed small-scale eco-floristic physiographical classification forms the basis for future monitoring of deforestation. A

Authors:P.D. Gunin, Elizabeth A. Vostokova, Nadezhda I. Doro
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: geobotany, mongolia, dynamics, vegetation
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 1999-03-31
List price: $215.00
ISBN-10: 0792355822
ISBN-13: 9780792355823

Mongolia is an expansive land-locked country, tilted by tectonic forces to the North, that experiences extremes of continental climate. Moisture-carrying wind currents are scarce so that the land has extended highs and lows in its environment. Culturally the people are mostly nomadic, having been sustained for centuries by an economy based on domestic livestock grazing. There is a saying that, `As the noses go, so goes Mongolia’, referring to the domesticated grazing noses of sheep, goats, camels, yaks or horses, and wild ungulates such as gazelles. The vast fenceless steppes of