Autecological Studies and the `Biological Flora of the British Isles'

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It will be impossible to make satisfactory continued progress towards understanding vegetation until ecologists have the use of "ecological machines", that is, of phytotrons giving maximal control of growing conditions for plants. The best places for such machines are Ecological Institutes, preferably located in or near a university city and with an experimental garden nearby. The initial function of the machine would be the experimental analysis of environmental control, at a first level of analysis, of the life history of a carefully selected set of ecologically or phytogeographically significant species. The relevant problems can only be recognized and defined as the result of such field studies as are involved in preparing an account of a species for the Biological Flora of the British Isles.

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