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BOTANICALLY the Mediterranean region is one of the best defined of the larger floristic and ecological divisions of the earth's surface. This is because of the high constancy of the seasonal distribution of temperature and rainfall maxima and minima. Data are not yet sufficient for an adequate survey of the whole region, which includes considerable parts of southern Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, but the work here noticed is a valuable contribution to such a survey, in that it brings together especially the results of the author's numerous studies of the plant-life of a very typical and well-worked area of the western Mediterranean Basin. The work is published posthumously, since Flahault died in 1935, and was awarded the Gay Prize in 1937 by the Paris Academy of Sciences.
La distribution géographique des végétaux dans la région méditerranéenne française
Ch. Flahault. Œuvre posthume publiée par H. Gaussen. (Encyclopédie biologique, Vol. 18.) Pp. xi + 180 + 4 plates. (Paris: Paul Lechevalier, 1937.) 100 francs.
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T., W. La distribution géographique des végétaux dans la région méditerranéenne française. Nature 143, 497 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143497a0
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