1. PHASES OF VEGETATION UNDER MONSOON CONDITIONS.
- Author
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Saxton, W.T.
- Subjects
VEGETATION dynamics ,VEGETATION & climate ,MONSOONS ,PLANT ecology ,PLANT communities ,PLANT-atmosphere relationships ,BOTANY - Abstract
The article presents a study on the phases of vegetation under monsoon conditions in the North of the Bombay Presidency in India. It examines the vegetation of the low lying area of about 36 acres, which includes 161 species of flowering plants being grouped in 8 synusia. Physiological anatomy of plants and their ecology was described in relation to the theory of mixed formations in time. It concludes that an association is not necessarily a topographical unit and that the synusium is to be preferred to the association as the fundamental unit of ecology.
- Published
- 1924
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