Lesson 12 - Alaska Geobotany Center

Plant Functional Types of Box (1981)Partial (!) list of the plantfunctional types developed byEugene Box.Widely accepted as perhaps thebest statement to date of aconsistent approach todescribing plant andcommunity physiognomy.However, it is still quite a long listand not particularly useful forglobal modeling effortsbecause of its complexity.• Table14 -1, p. 274, Smith et al. 1997