Applied plant geography / Dr. Sunil Kumar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Geography and vegetation -- Forest ecosystems and watershed quality -- Geography in plant and agricultural sector -- Geography of developing herbal and medicinal plants -- Conservation biogeography and forest ecology -- Tropical plant, vegetation and forests --
Molecular biology and genetic engineering of polyamines in plants -- Geographical development of land plants.

"Plant geography treats the plant cover of the earth’s surface as an object of study. Within this broad field many divergent approaches have been taken. The study of the spatial distributions of plants and vegetation and of the environmental relationships which may influence these distributions. Plant geography (or certain aspects of it) is also known as phytogeography, phytochorology, geobotany, geographical botany, or vegetation science. Vegetation is a general term for the plant life of a region; it refers to the ground cover provided by plants. It is a general term, without specific reference to particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extent, or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics. It is broader than the term flora which refers exclusively to species composition. Perhaps the closest synonym is plant community, but vegetation can, and often does, refer to a wider range of spatial scales than that term does, including scales as large as the global. Primeval redwood forests, coastal mangrove stands, sphagnum bogs, desert soil crusts, roadside weed patches, wheat fields, cultivated gardens and lawns; all are encompassed by the term vegetation. The present book is a humble attempt to study potential plant resources in the environment of the Central India. This phytogeographical study focuses on the plant ecology and valuable plant species based on the original research work of the author through field surveys."--Back cover

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