Man’s impact on vegetation

Abstract

A biography of Makoto Numata.- One: General aspects of man's impact upon vegetation.- 1. Man's attitude towards vegetation.- 2. Comparing the primary productivity of natural and managed vegetation: an example from Germany.- 3. Prediction of man's impact on plant species diversity: a challenge for vegetation science.- 4. Effects of air pollution on vegetation.- 5. Human impact on aquatic macrophytes.- 6. Fire as an anthropogenic factor in vegetation ecology.- Two: Man's impact in the various vegetation zones of the earth.- 7. Human impact on tropical moist forest.- 8. Tropical grasslands, savannas, woodlands: natural and manmade.- 9. Human impact on desert vegetation.- 10. Human impact on the vegetation of the Mediterranean basin.- 11. Man and the equilibrium between deciduous forest and grassland.- 12. Grassland as natural or semi-natural vegetation.- 13. Heaths as natural and semi-natural vegetation.- 14. Human impact on closed boreal forest (taiga).- 15. Modern human impact in the Arctic.- 16. Human impact on tree borderlines.- 17. Human impact on island vegetation.- 18. Urban environments and vegetation.- Three: Long and severely influenced areas: special features of man's impact.- 19. Human impact on landscape and vegetation in the Central High Andes.- 20. Man's impact upon the flora and vegetation in Central Europe.- 21. Man and vegetation in the Middle East.- 22. Man's impact on vegetation and landscape in the Himalayas.- 23. The geographical distribution of natural and cultural vegetation in the humid subtropics of China.- 24. Secondary forests and coppices in southwestern Japan.- 25. Man's impact on the wetlands in Japan.- 26. The urban vegetation of Tokyo and Sendai, Japan.- 27. Man's impact on vegetation in Japan and Central Europe: a comparison.- Systematic index.