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Ecology, biogeography and energy variations

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Introduction to World Vegetation

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To answer two questions that concern the ecologist and biogeographer, ‘Where do species live?’ and ‘Why there?’, geological history can only take us so far along the road. We need also to know the way plants live now and what in their present environments encourages their growth or limits their spread. It is to the science of ecology that we must look for insights, techniques and principles to guide our understanding in this task.

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Collinson, A.S. (1988). Ecology, biogeography and energy variations. In: Introduction to World Vegetation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3935-7_3

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