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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage.

Publication Details

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1898 CE.

In this work on the geographical distribution of plants Schimper coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll. English translation by William R. Fisher, revised and edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfour as Plant-Geography upon a physiological basis (Oxford, 1903). Digital facsimile of the 1903 translation from Google Books at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1908 second German edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

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Entry Number#8536
Permanent Linkhttps://hom-sveltekit.fly.dev/entry/10713
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLpflanzengeographie-auf-physiologischer-grundlage

Geographic Context

Publication place: Jena

Mentioned in annotation: Oxford