Abstract
The original or natural vegetation of Eastern Nigeria, as elsewhere in Africa and the world, results from the simultaneous action of a number of factors: climatic (particularly precipitation, relative humidity and temperatures), topographic, edaphic (soils and soil water) and biotic (animals, including man, and plants themselves). This complex of interacting phenomena is frequently referred to as the ‘biotic complex’ or ‘ecosystem’.
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R. W. J. Keay, An Outline of Nigerian Vegetation (Lagos, 1959), p. 6. (Hereafter referred to as Nigerian Vegetation.)
A. M. Aubréville, ‘Tropical Africa’, in S. Haden-Guest, J. K. Wright, E. M. Teclaff, A World Geography of Forest Resources (New York, 1956), chapter 16, p. 363.
R. J. Harrison Church, West Africa (London, 1963), p. 67.
G. Durrell, The Overloaded Ark (Penguin Books, 1228; London, 1961), pp. 30–31.
S. Kolade Adeyoju, ‘The Forest Resources of Nigeria’, The Nigerian Geographical Journal, viii (1965), p. 125.
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Floyd, B. (1969). Vegetation. In: Eastern Nigeria. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00666-3_9
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