Abstract
THIS is the second section of a work to be completed in four parts. It continues the detailed consideration of the environmental factors affecting vegetation in Switzerland. The details concerning rainfall are completed, and a full account is given of snowfall, snow-covering, dew and hoar-frost, hail, and lightning as they influence the structure and development of plant-life. The factor of temperature is introduced, but the account is incomplete in this part. A compound graph illustrates the alterations in the snow-lines at various stations in the Jura and the Alps throughout the year. An instructive and well-printed coloured map indicates the distribution of the chief kinds of vegetation and types of human exploitation of plant-life in the country. A full discussion of the value of this work must be left until it is complete.
Die Vegetation der Schweiz.
Von Prof. Dr. H. Brockmann-Jerosch. Zweite Lieferung. (Pflanzen-geographische Kommission der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Beiträge zur geobotanischen Landesaufnahme, Heft 12.) Pp. 161–288. (Bern: Hans Huber, 1927.) 9 Schw. francs.
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Die Vegetation der Schweiz . Nature 122, 344 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122344b0
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