PLANTS AND MAN ON THE SEYCHELLES COAST.

Abstract

Contents: Natural setting; History of human intervention (discovery and exploration, colonization and early plantation period, rise of coconut plantations, modern history of subsidiary commercial crops, present land use and settlement pattern); Aboriginal coastal vegetation (postulated component species, natural dispersal mechanisms, the question of coconut dispersal, possible ancient introduction of other plants, postulated natural patterns); Historic changes in composition of the coastal vegetation (native component, plant introduction); Present coastal vegetation (supratidal vegetation, intertidal vegetation).

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 15, 1967
Accession Number
AD0661193

Entities

People

  • Jonathan D. Sauer

Organizations

  • Louisiana State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anatomy
  • Biological Sciences
  • Intervention
  • Plants
  • Vegetation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.