(b) Serai communities , 



Region 



Community 



Table 3. 



Ch. 



H. 



G. 



H.H. 



Th. 



Southern California 



Spartinetum foliosae 

 Salic or nietum 

 General Salt Marsh 



Salinas Grande (Argentine) ' 



Allenrolfea-Heterostachys 



Distichlis spicata 

 Salic or nia -Se suvium 

 Spartinetum montevidensis 



Fano (Denmark) ' 



Salic or nietum 



Puccinellio -Salic or nia 



Puc c ine llio -A s te r 



Puccinellio -Plantago maritima 



Juncetum gerardi 



Artemisietum maritimi 



Sweden (Oresund) ' 

 Salic or nietum 

 Scirpetum maritimi 

 General Salt Marsh 

 Plantaginetum 

 Juncetum gerardi 

 Artemisietum maritimi 

 Suadetum maritimi 



Middle Europe ' 



Scirpetum maritimi 

 Salic or nie tum 

 Puce ine llio -Aster 

 Puccinellio -LiCpidium 



cartilagineum 

 Camphor OS me tum 

 Juncetum gerardi 

 Static e to -Artemisietum 



31 



40 



43 +7P. 



40 



49 

 76 



69 



74.5 



58 



19. 

 11 



100 



51 



24 



31 



6 



1) Spectra from Ragonese (1951). 



2) Spectra from Raunkaier (1912). 



3) Calculated on data from Dahlbeck (1945). 



4) Spectra from Wendelberger (1950). 



Therophytes are predominantly the pioneers in most seres but are later 

 replaced by the hemi-cryptophytes . 



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