Abstract
THIS text-book is designed to serve as an introduction to the ecology of plants. It treats the subject of plant life comprehensively rather than intensively, and the term ‘ecology,’ defined as “the science of the interrelations of living things and their environments,” is given a wide connotation. Chaptersii.-ix. deal mainly with thestructure and autecological relationships of plants. They form a good introduction to general botany from the ecological viewpoint. The physical factors of the environment are dealt with in the succeeding five chapters, and the last third of the book summarises various aspects of synecology. A useful, but too brief, appendix contains suggestions for the teacher concerning laboratory and field work. An index is provided and the text is illustrated by 114 figures. References to selected literature (in English only) are given at the ends of most of the chapters. The book can be heartily recommended to teachers in Great Britain, though it has one drawback: that many of the examples quoted, both of individual species and of plant communities, are endemic to North America, and are therefore probably unfamiliar to the English student.
Plant Ecology.
Prof.
W. B.
McDougall
By. Pp. 326. (London: Henry Kimpton, 1927.) 14s. net.
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T., W. Plant Ecology . Nature 122, 52 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122052b0
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