Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Plant Species and Its Ecological Properties 3. Ontogeny, demography and resource allocation in plants 4. Interference and coexistence among plant species 5. Plant environments 6. Plant Migration and Range Development 7. The Structure and Functioning of Vegetation 8. The Analysis of Patterns in Vegetation 9. Plant Geographic Techniques 10. The Hand of Man.

About the Author

Martin Kellman is Professor Emeritus of Geography at York University, Toronto, Canada. His main research focus has been on tropical vegetation and soils, with an emphasis upon reconciling contemporary processes and historical records. Tropical Environments (1997) and available from Routledge summarizes much of this work.