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