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PLANT COMMUNITIES OF THE ISLAND OF ARRAN, SCOTLAND
Author(s) -
ADAM P.,
BIRKS H. J. B.,
HUNTLEY B.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1977.tb02254.x
Subject(s) - geography , woodland , floristics , vegetation (pathology) , shrub , ecology , plant community , mire , flora (microbiology) , calluna , phytosociology , moorland , peat , archaeology , biology , ecological succession , species richness , medicine , genetics , pathology , bacteria
SUMMARY The vegetation of the saltmarshes, raised‐beaches, inland mires, dwarf‐shrub heaths, mountains, and woodlands of the Isle of Arran are described using conventional European phytosociological methods. The floristic affinities of these communities with previously delimited units elsewhere in Britain and in western Europe are described, and the problems of assigning many of the Arran communities into the existing central European phytosociological hierarchy are discussed.