The Vegetation of Georgia (South Caucasus)

✍ Scribed by George Nakhutsrishvili (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 245
Series: Geobotany Studies
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The book describes richness and diversity of Georgia’s vegetation. Contrasting ecosystems coexist on the relatively small territory of the country and include semi-deserts in East Georgia, Colchic forests with almost sub-tropical climate in West Georgia and subnival plant communities in high mountains. West Georgia lacks xerophilous vegetation zone and mesophilous forest vegetation spreads from the sea level to subalpine zone. The Colchic refugium (West Georgia) ensured survival of the Tertiary’s mesophilous forest flora. Vertical profile of the vegetation is more complex in East Georgia with semi-desert, steppe and arid open forest zone. In South Georgia the montane zone represented by montane steppe is devoid of forests

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Environmental Conditions....Pages 1-3
History of the Flora and the Vegetation....Pages 5-12
On the Altitudinal Differentiation of the Vegetation of Georgia....Pages 13-16
On the Classification and Nomenclature of Plant Communities....Pages 17-18
The Vegetation of Semi-Deserts, Steppes and Arid Open Woodlands....Pages 19-34
Forest Vegetation of Georgia....Pages 35-87
Near-Timberline Vegetation....Pages 89-118
High-Mountain Vegetation....Pages 119-208
Hydrophytic Vegetation....Pages 209-213
Synanthropic Vegetation....Pages 215-217
Cultivated Flora....Pages 219-222
Georgia: Protected Areas....Pages 223-225
Back Matter....Pages 227-235

✦ Subjects

Biogeosciences; Physical Geography; Plant Ecology; Plant Sciences

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