Ecology of World Vegetation (Chapman & Hall, £24.99, ISBN 0 412
44300 7) by O. W. Archibold is a compendious and well-illustrated but
conventional survey of plant biogeography. But is it enough to tack a page or so
onto the end of each chapter tackling “human impacts”? Or to devote only 35
pages out of 500 to coastal and marine vegetation?
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