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Bot.
Need.
Book
180-183
21(2):
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R. Knapp:
in die Pflanzensoziologie.
Einführung
tionskunde,
Publ.
book
first
was
der
in
published
edition
1948
contains
In
338 pages,
Unterricht
this
a
und anderen
and 41 tables.
figures,
DM 48.-.
and
1958
so
Vegeta-
in Land- und Forstwirt-
388 pages, 253
it consisted
1949;
“Die
Pflanzensoziologie”,
“Angewandte Pflanzensoziologie”).
first/second
Pflanzengesellschaflen,
Anwendung
Umweltschutz,
edition;
1971. Price
Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart,
(“Arbeitsmethoden
and
revised third
Completely
The present
und
Natur-
schaft, Landschaftspflege,
Gebieten.
und deren
Vegetationskartierung
of three
separate
parts
Pflanzengesellschaften Mitteleuropas”,
revision
of the first
part
edition
second/third
has
published. The
was
been
somewhat
en-
larged.
According
plant
to the
communities
in
The book
of the
Besides,
in
and
treated,
polyploidy,
ing,
the
of
The seventh
“Einfiihrung in
complete review,
according
the
However,
or
to
added
chapter
and
die
In
contains
as an
in
introduction
an
for those
of information
source
the fields
and in the
chapter contains
plant communities
study
of
teaching
gives
A short
brief
with
of
a
opinion
regretted
correct
unit. This
is
a
rather
study
chapter
forms,
diaspores,
units
takes
for
well
the
about one
up
the
It
about
gives
a
detailed
so
the book shows in
some
term
points more
plant sociology
phytocoenology (mentioned by
logy
and the
of the
Europe.
object
not
definition
proper,
The
the
author
he nowhere
clearly
of
vegetation
more or less
as
as
explanation. In
concepts
clearly
occur
vegetation,
imperfections
The
the
more
distribution
a
practis-
to
or
less
get
the
shortcomings.
serious
has been
the author
maintained;it
merely
as
a
is
in
states this.
vagueness and
more
lacking,
and
book meant to be
places
while
Besides,
the
place
of
book;
indications like
for
instance,
“Plant
introduction
to
a
in
part
terminodefinition
Ecolgy”,
“pflanzensoziologische Arealkunde”
an
used
as a
plant sociology
inaccuracy concerning the
in the
would
synonym)
obviously interprets vegetationstudy only
stated. This
Community”, “soziologische Gruppen”,
accurate
sense
of the
800 titles.
vegetation study
being, however,
the
third
of
teaching
got-up.
used,
synecology,
species (in
contains
of
is not
(classes, orders,
handbook.
use
sociology, though
geobotany is
(syn-
vegetation-map-
term
physiognomy,
of references
book,
chapter
vegetation
of succession
to
paid
higher vegetation
of all aspects
without
to the
detailed, the zoological includ-
attention is
of the
sample plot
treated in detail.
The third
synchorology (which
(7 pages)
solid
examples,
School,
the
of the main characteristic
instructions
that the obsolete
to
of
life
groups,
the fundamen-
The
are
mentioned.
chapter
chapter
aspects
schools. The list
many
briefly
are
description
to each
chapter
discussed.
are
ecological species
survey of the
Pflanzensoziologie”
the French-Swiss
and Western
of plant
within
of
brief introduction to some
vegetation study (“Vegetationskunde”, “vegetatiekunde”), nowadays commonly
Central
on
agriculture,
the
or
environment in relation
In the fourth
the fifth
a
a
of plant communities
of the
enumeration
secondary
illustrated
in my
more
of
and further
Europe.
well
been
character
it is to be
of
of formations.
chapter
have
taxa)
at universities
have been
investigations
and continuum
explanations
areas,
in Central
study
First,
a
and the taxonomy
discussed.
are
distribution, as
and
as
and its task. In the second
(abiotic) properties
are
plant
book.
size
hand
hand
as
applications, the synchronology, and,
The sixth
of faithful
ed
The
there
and its
alliances)
and the
in
The first
classification
and the science
science
however).
and
one
conservancy,
its aims
boundary, gradient,
human influences
ing
nature
chapters.
composing of tables,
synecology.
dynamics)
seven
vegetationstudy,
investigation and
the terms
deals with
are
engaged
are
environment,
is divided into
the
analysis,
who
the
on
the other
on
general.
generalconcepts
tals
vegetation study,
in
for those
control of the
forestry,
biology
the book is intended
preface
specialize
want to
who
vegetation study
need
“Plant
a more
I think
such
annoying.
of the
subject-matter
over
the
chapters
and the subdivision
of the latter
181
are sometimes not very
do with
to
have
forms and the science
in
which
other
in
vegetation (fourth chapter; syndynamics)
be
It is to
reader
is
regretted
referred
Actually,
sixth
to
deal
with
is
the
Finally,
the book
Vegetation types
in
place
and
plants
are
book less
of the Central
the
all;
the
synecology.
discussed
not
und
European plant communities,
introduction
an
methods
the
is focused
of
little
are
frequent
the
to the
Central
involved
the
in
to
at
gegenseitige
of
investigation
vegetation;
hand, however,
this
given
as
An introduction
vegetation study.
in the
ought
enumeration
an
greatly
survey
also
can
the
which
discussion
of
names
It is to be
text, but
surveys,
Europe,
is
drawback
a
to the
Netherlands, like vegetations of
the
of German
use
understandable.
easily
not restricted
rather
on
prominent in
are
general syntaxonomic
enhances
of
the
regretted
be
found
representation
of the various
plants
and
plant
methods
the list
of
from
Apart
outside
ditches,
concepts.
makes
on Central
of references.
literature
and
and
communities
that this concentration
in
Dutch reader.
broads
the
Europe
from some
this
region
is
scanty.
A.J.
A. A.
Imshhnetski
(editor)
trofii
The book
contains
to
undelivered
a
22
papers)
-
7
reports,
conference
Israel
plants.
Program
den
Held
for Scientific
Konferentsii po Miko-
“Trudy
1955. 362 pp.
Rastenii”; Moskva,
contributed
in
Mycotrophy
:
1967. Translated from
Translations, Jerusalem,
7
more
on
(1967).
survey
result of this. On the other
that
marshes, etc.,
Moreover,
is
book
between
of
part
of life
been
of the book.
utility
salt
opinion form
my
have
animal influences
relations
aims
a
human and
those who
explanation
“Experimentelle Pflanzensoziologie
Pflanzen”
is
the
the
would
chapter (synecology)
hand,
and to
beginners
to
example,
an
that the mutual
not in
vegetation units
give
Knapp’s
extensive
an
chapter,
to
der
Beeinflussung
To
in the third
On the
chapter.
difficulties
again
presents
of formations
in the second
place
clear,
vegetation study only indirectly.
held
in
undelivered
1953.
reflecting general
The
papers,
majority
trends
and
discussions
Russian
by
of the contributions
of Russian
work-deal
with
workers
(15 reports
and
ectotrophic
tree
(mainly oak) mycorrhiza.
At that time research
ficial effects of the
tion
of
in the
of afforestation
of shelterbelts
by Zerova, Chastukhin,
synthesis
The
with
morphology
association and the conditions
introducing mycorrhizal fungi (mycorrhization)
course
reviewed
rhiza
concerned
was
symbiotic
present
Translated
into
Jerusalem).
The text is
with
pure
volume
is
German,
Its main
carefully
and Runov.
cultures
outdated
1960,
value is the
in
of different
by
and
and
mainly
had
its first
steppe regions.
Several
workers
with
establishing
it. The
leading to
great
Work
on
bene-
practical applicain Russia
successes
this
line
is
report experiments
critically
of mycor-
fungus species.
two further
Russian
Shemakhanova,
comprehensive
books
translated
documentation
on
into
mycorrhiza: Lobanow,
English,
of Russian
1967
work
(also
until
in
1953.
translated.
W. Gams
182
The
P. Bell and C. Woodcock:
276
£
and
figures
Green Plants.
Diversity of
Edward
photographs.
Arnold,
2nd edition, 374 p.,
London 1971. £ 5.—
(paperback
2.50).
This book
there
are
first
was
It is
Biology.
Chlorophyta),
plants
evolution
in
of orders.
descriptions
mentioned
Two
and
discussed.
the
simple
to elaborate
which
can
algae. They
be
There is
All
in
a
between
division;
algae
the
This is
tions
of
paleobotanical
G.
We must
to the
channels
are
M.
of terms,
too
Discussion
a
of evolution
of
autotrophic plants:
reproduction.
of divisions
of the
species
following
The
and
Plant
Kingdom
of the
BLV
The
Mohr
und
in
to show
a
number
discipline
of
of enzyme
with
(Bryophyta)
a
of the
discussion
lignified conducting tissue, xylem)
and
include
orders
The
on
glossary
and
that
to consider
ity
the basis
it
is
a
of terms is
that
pity
and
information,but
evolution
an
have
been
an
of
one
a
book
(1960,
of this size
considera-
omitted.
references
cannot be
qualities
It is
the
The
more
like
than
Cryptogamic
an introduction
der
Grundlagen
a
period
and
of
rapid progress.
repression
has
Munting
Entwicklung.
been,
The Jacob-Monod
and still
is,
developmental biology. It opened
in the various groups of
of
others the books
evolution
plants,
the second
on
an
book
inspiring
is
animals
Sussman:
and
book
divided
complexity, the
development.The
by
of differentiation
microorganisms, plants
last-mentioned
of factors in
is in
the field of
among
The
introductory chapters
analysis
well-
of this book.
a
powerful
the
possibil-
and viruses on
view.
appeared
undergraduates,
of both.
of
in
processes
(1971), treating development
consists
Molekulare
gene activation
1964), Bullough:
textbook for
Sitte:
synthesis
integrated
there
placed
index.
detailed
important part
some
are
and their inter-
München, 1971; 230 pp.; DM 22, —.
synthesis by
developmental
In succession
ment
Peter
and
many
than half of the book. The
more
reference list of about 90 references
“developmental biology”
inductor of research
from
of progressions,
autotrophic plants.
Verlagsgesellschaft,
theory
trends
evolutionary
parenchymatous organization,
oogamy
are
compared.
are
description
to
and
classes,
A.J.
Hans
and
flowering
missing.
remember, however,
subject
evolution
of the many and diverse
information
recent
schematic
Smith are
and
of evolution.
the
possessing
those
and
edition
algae (Cyanophyta
bryophytes.
is reasonable.
price
drawings
Botany by
to
isogamy
a
very useful book for students. It contains much
and the
printed
The
a
end with
remaining three chapters
glossary
a
and
various
and fossil records
and liverworts
mosses
Tracheophyta.
relationships occupy
book ends with
representing
the
plants (i.e.
the vascular
single
as
on
the
and sexual
from unicellular
and from
cycles
regarded
chapter
a
similarities
life
the
Contemporary
(Gymnospermae)
of characteristics
and
algae
algae
on
in
In the second
revised.
between
Relationships
the
sections
conifers
cycle, mobility
summaries
to the
trace
and the
principles governing
life
of student texts
autotrophic plants.
(Bryophyta),
Contemporary
are devoted
chapters
within
the
and
in
substantionally
been
definitions
of the series
part
evolution
illustrations
nutrition,
structure,
contain
chapters
short
have
deals with
chapter
as
the
and liverworts
mosses
(Angiospermae)
The first
1968
of additional
number
a
in
published
introduction to
an
for
into
(1967)
animals.
two
major
an
by
The
researchers,
Jacob-Monod
second part treats
Growth
and
and
Mohr
first
develop&
Sitte
book
is
and the third
parts.
model, the
The first
cell
array of subjects,
part
model,
more
a
has
or
and
less
183
specially:
in
morphogenesis
viruses, differentiation,
light on development, the development of special
tion
and interactions
The choice
rather
seem
The book
“mer
a
should
and is
organisms
For
the nucleus
and the
of the individual
the
influence
of
cytoplasm.
chapters
the
this, however,
regulation,
organelles, enzymatic regula-
and the way
authors
in which
be
hardly
can
they
blamed,
treated
are
had
they
as
to
boire”.
a
be read
and re-read
in the
researchers
by
as
between
subjects
arbitrary.
out of
choose
well
of the
hormonal
structures and
field,
another
thereby
gives
for
plea
those who
by
it
as
interested in the
merely
are
openings
many
related
to
to the
integrated approach
an
subject,
problems
in
of
problem
as
other
develop-
ment.
R.
Moore and E. Edgar. Flora
L. B.
Indigenous
43
pp.,
Tracheophyta,
4 maps,
figs.,
New Zeeland volume II.
of
exept Gramineae. I —XL +
Monocotyledones
1970.
A.
R.
Soekarjo
Shearer.
Government
354
Printer, Wellington,
New Zeeland. Price $ 4.50.
This flora
with
mic research
ted,
on
New
the
a
descriptions
distribution
material
which
and type
have
may
taxonomic
type. The
fills
A few corrections
notes
on
part
addition
all under
taxonomy of
by
made.
occur
of South
in
a
“Annals
of taxono-
of classes
synopsis
begins
the groups with
to the
the
13
useful,
a
etc.
and
or-
and
New
in
spite
acquain-
notes
Other
the
on
fruiting time,
in
printed
Setchell
a valid
is, however,
Zealand,
to the
key
type
particulars,
arguments for making
e.g.
are
a
am
a
smaller
letter-
long glossary.
pages
Zostera novazelandica
Australia,
also
descriptions
taxa,
with
which I
heading “Dist.”
the
described
typiflcation, relationships,
to be
by
entitled
abroad), ecology, flowering
as
Irmisch ex Aschers. ; it
muelleri does not
Z.
the South-eastern
judgefrom
In
accurate.
is concluded
have
muelleri
the
on
and
from the title. The
expected
section
of the book. It
greater part
locality are given, curiously
bearing
decisions,
of Z.
1965-1968”
I can
as
well
as
than is
more
bibliographic
system.
of course the
Zealand
descriptive part
synonym
Zealand.
Hutchinson’s
extremely
are
New
(in
fact much
a
Tracheophyta
to the genera. As far
key
in
gives
preceded by
Zealand
descriptive section
families and
cover
treatment is
mainly follows
ders which
The
its attractive
flora
descriptive
but is endemic to
of many
is recorded
species
records
Victoria,
in
being
as
a
restricted to New
Tasmania
literature
which
and
state
otherwise.
The
correct
fact
to
of
name
The
Thompson.
undescribed
an
is S. punctata
Spirodela oligorrhiza (Kurz) Hegelm,
description
and
drawing of Wolffia
from
species
S.
E.
arrhiza
known
Australia,
Horkel
(L.)
W.
as
ex
(G.
F. W.
Wimmer
arrhiza
var.
Meyer)
relates
in
australiana
Benth.
The last
New
pages)
question
not. There
“Corrigenda
which
will
some of the
in
New
way,
them
well
to volume
I”
documented list
of chromosome
numbers
of the
Monocotyledones (inch Gramineae) (28
and
(14 pages).
always
species.
lack
it is
a
play
common
nists. As
the
doubt
example,
in
the
1950) can
them,
that
The
general index
example
role
restricts
I refer
the
about
is which
species
indigenous
the
discovery
relates
just
as
well
alien
possible
species
vegetation.
only
utility
of the flora
water
plants
they
in
were
to the
des-
of the
a
of the
document.
and
which
occurrence
L.
is
New
limited
of
(Spirodela oligorrhiza
overlooked or that
there
they appeared very recently
certainly
Zealand
completely neglect
to
academic
indigenous
character
that
minor
occur
To
an
are
of some Lemnaceae
is correct, Lemna
the
to three
mind
be ascribed to the fact
many
in
renders it
indigenousplants,
late
but is it
nowadays
conspicuous
occurrence
an
in
some
If the identification
fact
a
be
For
of interest
Zealand.
gives only
springs immediately to
1930; Wolffia arrhiza
was a
a
part of the book.
The fact that this flora
The
of
Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones
and the
criptive
of the book consists
part
Zealand
introduced.
and that several
naturalized
group of
species
professional
family Hydrocharitaceae,
viz.
in
Anyof
of
bota-
Lagaro-
184
siphon major (Ridl.)
which
to
are so
controlled
be
flora,
have
case
(See
nor
been
is the
species
When
are
seen
in
the
importance. This
V. J.
for
a
in
the
species
the
recorded,
terminalis
lakes
(L.)
e.g.
Chapman
& C.
A.
that
Bell,
Michx.,
they
flora,
In
my
e.g. in
authors have
opinion such
a smaller
not been
in
a
general
L. in
note
a
under
authors have
truly an excellent piece
are
and
common
type
species
or in
a
note.
as
of the
achieved, however,
not
a
need
weeds;
given in
species
should
However,
note under P. ochreatus
description
Planch.,
which
water
are
naturalized
entirely consistent,
the
densa
and Waikato
These three
letter
Egeria
regarded as pests
Rotorua
solution, Auckland, 1967).
of what the two
volume is
canadensis
Island
Potamogeton crispus
Kunth
light
Elodea
onNorth
family mentioned.
incorporated
of introduced
dyline
e.g.
Wager,
ex
some
and the search
problems
the
Moss
common in
in the
few introduced
Raoul
genus
and Cor-
Cordyline.
of minor
my remark is
work.
C.
den
Hartog