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As a habitat factor, the influence that soil has on plant growth is profound. The soil itself is a system as intricate as the vegetation it supports. Even to outline the numerous geographical, geological, climatic and ecological relationships between the atmosphere, plants and soils would be outside the scope of this book; good accounts will be found in Eyre (1968) and Watts (1971). However, the basic principles of the relationships can be expressed relatively simply in the form of a schematic systems diagram (Fig. 6.1).
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Collinson, A.S. (1988). Soil conditions and their influence on plant distributions. In: Introduction to World Vegetation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3935-7_6
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