FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYTOCENOLOGY AND PLANT GEOGRAPHY - T. P. Larkina - 2017

SECTION 2. FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANT GEOGRAPHY

Review Questions

1. What is plant geography?

2. What are the objectives of floristic geography?

3. WHAT IS A distribution range (areal)?

4. What types of distribution ranges do you know?

5. What factors determine THE POSITION OF a range boundary?

6. What is an ecotope?

7. What are the Methods for mapping a distribution range?

8. What is a disjunction?

9. What are the causes of disjunctions?

10. What plant groups are distinguished based on their global distribution?

11. Give Examples of endemic plants.

12. What is a refugium?

13. What relict species is the Kungur Forest-Steppe rich in?

14. What is vicariance? Give examples.

15. What principles were used to delineate the Floristic Kingdoms of the world?

16. What regions are assigned the rank of kingdom, region, or province?

17. How many kingdoms are distinguished in total?

18. Which floristic kingdom do we live in? Characterize this kingdom.

19. Why does the Australian kingdom occupy a unique position among other kingdoms?

20. What botanical-geographical regions are distinguished in Perm Krai?

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