The ecology and management of African wetland vegetation A botanical account of African swamps and shallow waterbodies
Interest in the biology of African 'wetlands' was initiated in the last century with the hypothesis that Lake Tanganyika was once part of a Jurassic sea, and was furthered by Cunnington's expedition at the beginning of this century which proved that it was not. In the late 1920's...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1985, 1985
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1985 |
| Series: | Geobotany
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- One: Introduction
- 1. Wetland vegetation and associated plant life-forms
- Two: Water Plant Biology and Vegetation Dynamics
- 2. Submerged and floating-leaved aquatic macrophytes (euhydrophytes)
- 3. Emergent plants of permanent and seasonally-flooded wetlands
- 4. Surface-floating aquatic macrophytes
- Three: Ecosystem Structure and Functioning
- 5. The structure and functioning of African euhydrophyte communities. The floating-leaved and submerged vegetation
- 6. The structure and functioning of African swamps
- Four: Problems, Management and Conservation
- 7. African aquatic weeds and their management
- 8. The conservation and management of African wetlands
- 9. African wetland vegetation - concluding perspective
- Five: Bibliography
- 10. Cross-indexed bibliography of African wetland plants and vegetation
- Author index
- Geographical index
- Systematic index