Zonation in the plant cover in the Arctic, Proceedings of Komarov Botanical Institute, 21
Matveeva, NV
1998. St. Petersburg, 170x240, photos, maps, graphs, pytocoenological tables, bibliography, In Russian with TOC and summary in English.
Hdb, 219pp. Price EURO 36.
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Contents:
Introduction * Changes in floristic composition on the zonal gradient in the Arctic * Zonal landscape distributions of species * Main Taymyr plant communities and their zonal landscape distribution * Species structure of the arctic plant communities (an anlysis of lapha-diversity * Spatial structure of plant communities in the high latitudes * The dynamic processes in the arctic communities and zonal landscape gradient * Zonal division of Taymyr as a model of latitudinal differentiation of plant cover in the polar regions * Conclusions * Summary * References * Appendix

Notes:
A comprehensive review of the plant cover of the Russian (including Siberian) Arctic, written by the leading Russian specialist on the Arctic vegetation. The monograph is a result of more than 20 years investigations in the polar territories, mainly on Taymyr Peninsula, and is rich of original data, graphs, phytoconological tables, species listings, photos, maps etc. The spatial variation in species richness as well as in taxonomic and phytocoemological structures of the arctic communities are analysed.

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