Day, JA2008-03-122008-03-121983-06Day, JA (Editor). 1983. Mineral nutrients in mediterranean ecosystems. Cooperative Scientific Programmes: CSIR, SANSP Report 71, Jun 1983, pp 1760 7988 2693 2http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2192The notion of ecological convergence has influenced taxonomists and biogeographers since the development of ecology in the mid-nineteenth century. Our initial understanding of the ecosystems of the world resulted from plant geographers' classifications of plant forms and formations, categories implicitly based on their intuitive views of convergence. Because of the striking similarities in plant form among the small, widely-separated Mediterranean ecosystems (Figure 1), biogeographical concepts and early ideas on ecophysiology were strongly influenced by convergence in the sclerophyllous plant form and the inferred similarities in plant function. These views were controversial, however, and there has been no attempt at rigorous hypothesis testing until the second half of this century.enMineralsEcosystemsEcologyBiologyGeographySANSPReportDay, J. (1983). <i>Mineral nutrients in mediterranean ecosystems</i> (CSIR). Cooperative Scientific Programmes: CSIR. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2192Day, JA <i>Mineral nutrients in mediterranean ecosystems.</i> CSIR. Cooperative Scientific Programmes: CSIR, 1983. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2192Day J. Mineral nutrients in mediterranean ecosystems. 1983 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2192TY - Report AU - Day, JA AB - The notion of ecological convergence has influenced taxonomists and biogeographers since the development of ecology in the mid-nineteenth century. Our initial understanding of the ecosystems of the world resulted from plant geographers' classifications of plant forms and formations, categories implicitly based on their intuitive views of convergence. Because of the striking similarities in plant form among the small, widely-separated Mediterranean ecosystems (Figure 1), biogeographical concepts and early ideas on ecophysiology were strongly influenced by convergence in the sclerophyllous plant form and the inferred similarities in plant function. These views were controversial, however, and there has been no attempt at rigorous hypothesis testing until the second half of this century. DA - 1983-06 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Minerals KW - Ecosystems KW - Ecology KW - Biology KW - Geography KW - SANSP LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 1983 SM - 0 7988 2693 2 T1 - Mineral nutrients in mediterranean ecosystems TI - Mineral nutrients in mediterranean ecosystems UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2192 ER -