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Publications Studies of Flora and Vegetation 83. 82BUdo BOHN, Gisela GOLLUB, Christoph HETTWER, Zdenka NEUHÄUSLOVÁ, Heinz SCHLÜTER & Herbert WEBER – Karte der natürlichen Vegetation Europas, Maßstab 1 : 2 500 000. Erläuterungstext. – Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 2003 (ISBN 3-7843-3837-2). 655 + XVI pages + 13 folded maps in pouch (11 in colour), + CD-ROM (by Udo BOHN & Robert NEUHÄUSL), 148 colour photographs, 23 figures, 21 tables, 7 maps, portrait; paper. 84. 83BUdo BOHN, Gisela GOLLUB, Christoph HETTWER, Zdenka NEUHÄUSLOVÁ, Thomas RAUS, Heinz SCHLÜTER & Herbert WEBER – Karte der natürlichen Vegetation Europas / Map of the natural vegetation of Europe, Maßstab /scale 1 : 2 500 000. Interaktive / Interactive CD-ROM. – Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 2004 (ISBN 3-7843-3848-8). 1 CD- ROM + 20 pages booklet in plastic case. Last time, when presenting the map of the natural vegetation of Europe and its Legend booklet (OPTIMA Newslett. 37: 82. 2004), I pointed out that without the corresponding, incidentally mentioned manual the provided information was incomplete. Here, now, is that manual. That manual, or “Explanatory text”, is a sizeable volume written in German. In its introductory chapters it describes the genesis and history of the mapping project, with its theoretical bases, and summarises Late Quaternary vegetation changes. In its main portion it provides detailed descriptions of the 19 main vegetation formations and c. 700 mapping units with their constituent associations. These chapters are well illustrated with colour photographs. Maps of the individual formations have mostly been printed on loose folded sheets (note that map 20, of riverine wetlands, has been unduly trimmed at its southern end, so as to exclude S Peloponnesus and Crete). The accepted generic names used for purposes of phytosociological nomenclature appear, with their principal synonyms, in a list compiled by Thomas Raus. Explanations of the special terms used in the book and bibliographical references to maps and publications are appended. A substantial amount of corollary information is not given in the printed book but in the accompanying CD-ROM. There one finds species inventories, data sheets relating to the mapping units, with commentary, as well as a glossary. The separate CD-ROM referred to above is confusingly similar in aspect to the one just mentioned but is altogether different in content. It brings again, in full, the printed information of Explanatory text and Legend, with improvements and corrections – both the German original and an English translation. It also includes the 9 vegetation maps themselves (but not the survey map). Limited interactive searching options are implemented, and a simple feedback facility is provided, encouraging the submission of comments, suggestions and corrections. W.G. 85. 84BMarcelino José del ARCO AGUILAR (ed.) – Mapa de Vegetación de Canarias. – Grafcan, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2006 (ISBN 978-64-611-3811-1). 550 pages, colour illustrations (56 photographs, maps, graphs, tables) in 1 volume with laminated cover + 7 folded maps in colour + 1 CD-ROM, all in cardboard case. Unbelievably, this major work on vegetation mapping (which profited of preexisting maps for Tenerife and parts of Gran Canaria) was completed in less than 3 years, between December 2000 when the research contract was signed and June 2003 when the complete data were handed in. It took another three years to get the results printed, a (44) OPTIMA Newsletter No. 38 2009
time lag that was used to fill gaps in the coverage by mapping four offshore islets, one at the northern tip of Fuerteventura and three in a similar position near Lanzarote. Project director Marcelino del Arco and his team of 12 can be proud of their achievement. The seven map sheets, one for each of the main Canary Islands, are printed on both sides, with explanatory text covering the verso. The recto bears a large map of the actual vegetation at its centre (scale varies according to island size, between 1 : 55 000 for La Gomera and 1 : 170 000 for Fuerteventura), flanked by smaller maps (one of them showing the potential natural vegetation), vegetation profiles, and the legend of colour codes. The mapped vegetation units are associations (for woody formations), alliances or orders (herbaceous formations) defined by the sigmatistic method of Braun- Blanquet. Aerial photographs in colour were used to establish their distribution. The book is for a large part devoted to the characterisation of vegetation types, first for the archipelago as a whole then in the context of the individual islands. Among the appendices, a list of species characterising vegetation units, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography are of note. As to the CD-ROM, it again includes, in separate pdf files, the printed book and map sheets, and in addition it offers the possibility to zoom into the vegetation maps and see their every detail, which is more than the printed version since the original mapping was done at a 1 : 20 000 scale. W.G. 86. 85BMarkus VON GAISBERG – Die Vegetation der Fußstufe von El Hierro) Kanarische Inseln). [Dissertationes Botanicae (ISSN 0070-6728), 395.] – Cramer, Berlin & Stuttgart, 2005 (ISBN 3- 443-64308-6). 364 pages, 97 black-andwhite figures (photographs, maps, graphs), 22 tables + 1 folded table in pouch; hard cover. Publications Markus von Gaisberg, one of the authors of the distribution atlas of the El Hierro flora presented above (item 59), has chosen the lower belt of that island as subject for his PhD thesis. That thesis has grown into the present, stately book, well written and nicely presented. El Hierro, the smallest and presumably youngest of the Canary Islands, was also arguably the least explored botanically. Looking at the steep flanks of this volcano tip emerging abruptly from a more than 3000 m deep sea floor, one can easily imagine how arduous it is to explore them. This is the terrain that Gaisberg and his colleague Stierstorfer have thoroughly investigated for several years. Their field data, electronically stored, have already helped writing three books, and more may yet come. One positive aspect of their work is that it was not done in splendid isolation. Rather, they sought and received the support of Canarian botanists and institutions, principally Wolfredo Wildpret and his team of the University of La Laguna on Tenerife. W.G. 87. 86BJosep GESTI PERICH, Lluís VILAR I SAIS & Susan WATT – Plantes vasculars del quadrat UTM 31T EG07 Castelló d’Empúries. [ORCA: Catàlegs floristics locals, 16.] – Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Secció de Ciències Biològiques, Barcelona, 2005 (ISBN 84-7283- 825-0). 95 pages, maps, graph; paper. The rhythm of publication of this series of floristic inventories of individual 10 × 10 km squares of the chorological mapping grid for Catalonia has apparently slowed down. Last time (see OPTIMA Newslett. 37: 83. 2004) there were three such fascicles to be presented, published in 2002 and 2003. Since then but a single one has been printed. Castelló d’Empúries is situated in the extreme northeast of Spanish Catalonia, close to the Mediterranean Sea. The area of its grid square is comprised of lowlands barely exceeding 50 m of altitude and can be 2009 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 38 (45)
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