Abstract
DR. GAMS is a well-known ecologist, or perhaps one should say geobotanist, of the Zurich school, and the present volume has resulted from an intensive study of a small portion of the Rhone valley and a mountain massif overtopping it. The district dealt with in detail is only 76 square kilometres in area. The account is divided into three parts, of which the first deals fairly fully with the environmental factors. Since the country investigated has altitudes ranging from 465 m. to 2980 m., and has had a complicated geological history, these are very diverse. The second part gives a list of the woody plants with the limits of their altitudinal zonation, common names, and soil preferences, and lists of several special groups of species.
Von den Follatères zur Dent de Morcles: Vegetationsmonographie aus dem Wallis.
Von Dr. Helmut Gams. (Pflanzengeographische Kommission der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft: Beiträge zur geobotanischen Landesaufnahme, Heft 15.) Pp. xii + 760 + 26 Tafeln. (Bern: Verlag Hans Huber, 1927.) 39 gold marks; 48 francs.
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T., W. Von den Follatères zur Dent de Morcles: Vegetationsmonographie aus dem Wallis . Nature 122, 92 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122092a0
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