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Botany of the Cambridge Expedition to Edge Island, S.E. Spitsbergen, in 1927: Part II. The Vegetation
- Source :
- The Journal of Ecology. 22:156
- Publication Year :
- 1934
- Publisher :
- JSTOR, 1934.
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Abstract
- IN the course of the late Mr H. G. Watkins' Cambridge Expedition to Edge Island in 1927 some observations were made on the vegetation. Lists of the species of plants found and of the places visited have been given in the first part of this paper (3). The ecological notes made are here presented and correlated with Summerhayes and Elton's work on the ecology and zonation of the vegetation of Spitsbergen (4, 5). Their papers summarise the work of their predecessors so fully that there is no need to refer again to the earlier writers. It was not found possible to study the Fungi, Lichens or Bryophytes apart from making general notes on their presence or absence. On the flowering plants also the notes were incomplete, because some of the grasses, particularly those of the genus Poa, the hairy forms of Cerastium, the yellow-flowered species of Draba of the D. alpina group and a few other plants were not distinguished properly in the field. The object of the expedition was to explore Edge Island2, which is the south-eastern of the four main islands forming the Spitsbergen archipelago. We landed also at two places on Barents' Island, the island which lies to the north of Edge Island. The geology and topography of the two islands are similar, and the vegetation at these two places was like that of similar spots
Details
- ISSN :
- 00220477
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of Ecology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ecabdacb8e91705a4842fed3ba114d2b
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2256099