An Introduction To Historical Plant Geography [Hardcover]

Language: English. About the Book:- The present volume consists of eleven chapters opening with one covering the scope of the subject the relationships to allied sciences and methods of investigation and closing with an excellently prepared one on the concept of floral elements. Between these two chapters in much detail, is considered the history of the science areas: their types and origins parallelisms in the geographical distribution of plants and animals, artificial and natural factors in relation to the geographic distribution of plants, migrations of species and of floras and their causes and the historical causes for the present structure of areas and the composition of floras. Thus in this single volume students and investigators will find assembled in one place a great amount of well coordinated data presented in a lucid manner that should greatly lighten their burdens and act as a stimulant to further investigations. About the Author:- Evgenii Vladimirovich Wulff (1885–1941) was a Crimean Russian Soviet biologist, botanist and plant geographer. He was born in Crimea and studied at Moscow University 1903-1906. He obtained his PhD in biology from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1909. He then returned to Crimea and took up a position at the famous Nikitsky Botanical Garden near Yalta. He worked there 1914-1926, undertaking studies of the vegetation and flora of Crimea and founding the multi-volume Flora Taurica. 1921-1926, he also was professor at the Tavrida University of Crimea. He then moved to the Vavilov All-Union Institute of Crop Plants in Leningrad to expand his scientific studies. He took a particular interest in the history of plant geography. He published a monograph on this topic in 1932. The Title 'An Introduction To Historical Plant Geography written/authored/edited by E. V . Wulff', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121222358 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 246 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: 246. …