Book ID: 4907
HANDBOOK OF VEGETATION SCIENCE
Vol. 12: Jahn, Gisela (ed.): Application of Vegetation Science to Forestry. 1982. many figs. tabs. XI,405 p. gr8vo. Bound.
Deals with the history and development of the application of vegetationscience to forestry in 15 different countries of nearly all continents,endowed with very different environmental conditions. For each countryan introduction to the forestry conditions is given, followed by thehistory of the application of vegetation science to forestry, thedescriptions of the main fields of application, particularly the classification of growth regions and forest sites, and a criticalevaluation.