The Ecology of Areas with Serpentinized Rocks: A World View (Geobotany, 17)

**`** The book will become a standard reference for all those interested in soil-plant relationships and will provide a stimulus for further research in this aspect of biogeography and geobotany. **'** **Science** **`** ... to congratulate the editors on producing this excellent and exhaustive work on the ecology of world regions with serpentinized rocks. I am sure that this exciting and hiterhto neglected field will be well served and encouraged by the appearance of this important work. **'** **New Zealand Jrnl of Ecology, 16:2** Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-5 Serpentine and the geology of serpentinized rocks....Pages 7-30 Plant life of western North American ultramafics....Pages 31-73 Ecology of serpentinized areas, Newfoundland, Canada....Pages 75-113 A phyto-ecological investigation of the Mount Albert serpentine plateau....Pages 115-133 Chemical and ecological studies on the vegetation of ultramafic sites in Britain....Pages 135-167 Ecology of serpentinized areas of north-east Portugal....Pages 169-197 Distribution of serpentinized massives on the Balkan peninsula and their ecology....Pages 199-215 The distribution and ecology of the vegetation of ultramafic soils in Italy....Pages 217-247 The vegetation over ultramafic rocks in the tropical far east....Pages 249-270 The distribution and extent of serpentinized areas in Japan....Pages 271-311 The ecology of ultramafic areas in Zimbabwe....Pages 313-331 The vegetation over mafic and ultramafic rocks in the Transvaal Lowveld, South Africa....Pages 333-342 The vegetation of the greenstone belts of Western Australia....Pages 343-373 New Zealand Ultramafics....Pages 375-417 Concluding remarks....Pages 419-420 Back Matter....Pages 421-429