Abstract
THE great impetus that has been given during recent years to the study of the British flora is largely owing to the development of that branch of botany known as ecology. This subject—the study of plants in connection with their habitat—has raised many questions, and amongst them that of plant-communities has received foremost attention, and has been zealously investigated. The committee which was formed in 1904 to organise and carry out a systematic survey of the vegetation of the British Isles has worked hard. Much surveying and mapping has been done, and several memoirs dealing with widely separated areas have been published. Though further work is required before a complete account could be presented, yet enough has been accomplished to obtain a general idea of the principal types occurring.
Types of British Vegetation.
By members of the Central Committee for the Survey and Study of British Vegetation. Edited by A. G. Tansley. Pp. xx + 416 + 36 plates. (Cambridge: University Press, 1911.) Price 6s. net.
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C., A. Types of British Vegetation . Nature 89, 212–213 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089212b0
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