Preparation and use.
Food analysis.
Food experiment not limited to one kind of animal.
Adulteration of foods.
Preservation : Ensilage.
General.
Philosophy, content of subject, terminology, etc.
Compends and treatises.
Bibliography.
Essays, collected works, etc.
Ecological collections and museum displays.
Methods of investigation, apparatus, etc.
His tory and biography, travel, etc.
Individul ecology.
Adaptation and response in general.
Effect of environment on the individuel.
Effect of general climatic conditions.
Soil. — Water. — Nutritive substances. — Gsmotic solutions. — Chemical solutions
and poisons. — Heat ; Cardinal points. — Harmonic optium, etc. —
Ereering, winter killing. — Temperature inversions, etc. — Light. —
Electricity, etc. — Gther physical factors : wind, — atmospheric pressure,
— oxygen, — carbon dioxide, — smoke, — gaseous exhalations.
Effect of the plant on the environment.
Prevention of weathering and erosion.
Sand-binding.
Deposition ot silt and plant remains.
Enrichment of the soil, accumulation of humus.
Exhaustion of the soil.
Modification of atmospheric conditions.
Gther effects.
Adjustment, Acclimatization.
Ecological anatomy, i. e. advantageous or adaptive structure, or correlation of structure
with environment.
General works, content of subject, terminology, collected works, essays, etc.
Ecological anatomy of organs : Thalloid structures. — Roots. — Stems. — Leaves
and sterile phyllomes. — Flowers. — Fruit and seed. — Emergences and
trichomes. — Special organs. — Anatomy of special relations, as mycorhiza,
symbiosis, galls, etc. (Gr may be distributed under the general treatments
of these subjects).
Ecological anatomy of tissues : Absorptive tissues. — Conductive tissues. — Water
storage. — Protective tissues. — Mechanical tissues. — Aeraitive tissues.
— Synthetic tissues. — Secretive and excretive tissues. — Gther tissues.
Structural adaptation to, or correlation with, physiological wettnes s, — with,
physiological dryness, — with, conditions of light: lenses, palisade tissue,
— with other factors.
Ecological anatomy of particular plants.
Anatomical adaptations to, or correlations with, the conditions of particular regions
or formations.
Habit and duration.
Herbs, shrubs, trees, Hanes, epiphytes, krummholz, polster, annual, biennal, perennial,
etc.
Adaptations to self and cross-fertilization.
Relation to distributing agents.
General on dissemination, centers of distribution, migration routes, etc. — Dissemination
by water. — Wind. — Animals. — Man. — Gravity. — Glaciers.
— Gffschoots, runners, etc. — Propulsion. — Gther agents.
Gther ecological relations. — Mimicry of protective resemblance.
Ecology of particular plants.
Associational e co lo g y or synoecology.
General.
Philosophy, content, classification, terminology.
Compends, text books, treatises.
Bibliography.
Essays, collected works, miscellanies.
Formation and succession herbaria, alpine and other ecological botanical gardens.
Methods of investigation, apparatus, cartography.
His tory and biography.
Influence of plants upon each other. — The nature of competition. — Natural pruning.
Invasion.
Succession.
General discussion of dynamic relations.
Succession due to orographic movement. — Succession correlated with normal
physiographic development.
General on physiographic ecology. '
Succession related to erosion and river action, i. e. mainly destructive of land
forms.
Succession in the lake swamp-meadow series i. e. mainly constructive.
Physiographic ecology of particular areas.
Suc c e s s ion: on volcanic islands or areas denuded by volcanic action, — following
glaciation, — related to wind erosion and wind deposition. — Blow outs.
— Sand dunes, — following other natural catastrophes, asland-sHdes, earthquakes,
floods, breaking of dams, etc., - following disturbance by animal
agency, — succession following disturbance by man. — General. — Burne
areas. - Lumbered areas, reforestation. - By cultivation. - Drainage. -
Irrigation. — Gther disturbances by man, — in particular regions.
Zonation.
General, philosophical on life zones, etc.
Causes of zonation. — Horizontal zonation, — Vertical zonation.
Climatic zones : General and limitations. — Polar-niveal. — Arctic-alpine. —
Boreal-sub-alpine. — Temperate. — Subtropical. — Tropical.
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