Essays in geobotany
Subtitle: in honor of William Albert Setchell
By: edited by T.H. Goodspeed.
Contributors: Goodspeed, Thomas Harper, 1887- ed.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1936
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Setchell, William Albert, 1864-1943; Phytogeography; Phytogeography
Notes: Bibliography at end of most of the essays.
Table of contents: title: William Albert Setchell: a biographical sketch, by T.H. Goodspeed.; title: The rate of plant migration, by O.W. Arrhenius.; title: The origin of Crepis and related genera, with paticular reference to distribution and chromosome relationships, by E.B. Babcock.; title: The succession and distribution of cenozoic floras around the nothern Pacific basin, by R.W. Chaney.; title: The origin of the desert climax and climate, by F.E. Clements.; title: The strand and dune flora of the Pacific coast of North America: a geographic study, by W.S. Cooper.; title: The genetic phytogeography of the southwestern Pacific area, with paticular reference to Australia, by Ludwig Diels.; title: The rôle of the terrestrial alga in nature, by F.E. Fritsch.; title: The plant as a metobolic unit in the soil-plant system, by D.R. Hoagland.; title: Malaysian phytogeography in relation to the Polynesian flora, by E.D. Merrill.; title: Plant communities of the world, by Eduard Rübel.; title: Antarctic plants in Polynesia, by Carl Skottsberg.; title: The published writings of William Albert Setchell (p. 313-319)