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The Ecology of Areas with Serpentinized Rocks

A World View

  • Editors
  • B. A. Roberts
  • J. Proctor
Book

Part of the Geobotany book series (GEOB, volume 17)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      B. A. Roberts, J. Proctor
      Pages 1-5

  3. Geology

    1. Serpentine and the geology of serpentinized rocks
      J. Malpas
      Pages 7-30

  4. North America

    1. Plant life of western North American ultramafics
      A. R. Kruckeberg
      Pages 31-73
    2. Ecology of serpentinized areas, Newfoundland, Canada
      B. A. Roberts
      Pages 75-113
    3. A phyto-ecological investigation of the Mount Albert serpentine plateau
      L. Sirois, M. M. Grandtner
      Pages 115-133

  5. Europe

    1. Chemical and ecological studies on the vegetation of ultramafic sites in Britain
      J. Proctor
      Pages 135-167
    2. Ecology of serpentinized areas of north-east Portugal
      E. Menezes de Sequeira, A. R. Pinto da Silva
      Pages 169-197
    3. Distribution of serpentinized massives on the Balkan peninsula and their ecology
      B. Tatić, V. Veljović
      Pages 199-215
    4. The distribution and ecology of the vegetation of ultramafic soils in Italy
      O. Vergnano Gambi
      Pages 217-247

  6. Far East and Japan

    1. The vegetation over ultramafic rocks in the tropical far east
      John Proctor
      Pages 249-270
    2. The distribution and extent of serpentinized areas in Japan
      Naoharu Mizuno, Shiro Nosaka
      Pages 271-311

  7. Africa

    1. The ecology of ultramafic areas in Zimbabwe
      J. Proctor, M. M. Cole
      Pages 313-331
    2. The vegetation over mafic and ultramafic rocks in the Transvaal Lowveld, South Africa
      M. M. Cole
      Pages 333-342

  8. Australasia

    1. The vegetation of the greenstone belts of Western Australia
      M. M. Cole
      Pages 343-373
    2. New Zealand Ultramafics
      W. G. Lee
      Pages 375-417

  9. Concluding Remarks

    1. Concluding remarks
      B. A. Roberts, J. Proctor
      Pages 419-420
  10. Back Matter
    Pages 421-429
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Keywords

ecology

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