New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Some Problems in the Quantitative Ecology of Bryophytes

G. A. M. Scott

Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin*

Abstract In seeking to understand the interdependence of variables in an ecosystem, the ecologist usually has no more than a spatial pattern of species from which to start (Scott, 1969a). From this pattern he has to deduce which species and which habitat factors are correlated, which are most important to the ecosystem, and which will best repay experimental investigation. For this initial step bryophyte-dominated communities, unduly neglected, have much to offer, both for their own intrinsic interest and as model systems for investigation.

(Received 3 August 1970) New Zealand Journal of Botany 9: 744-9

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