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The monograph surveys Algeria’s physical geography and climate from the littoral and Tell through the High Plateau to the Sahara, then documents plant communities and habitats—forests, oases, plains, dunes, and mountain tracts—and their regional variations. It examines vegetation structure and life habits, root and leaf adaptations, growth and flowering patterns, and the influence of soil, temperature, rainfall, evaporation–rainfall ratios, and grazing on species distribution. Detailed regional accounts illustrate plant–environment relations, and the work closes with generalizations about aridity, biotic factors, and a comparative perspective with vegetation of a similarly arid region in southern North America.
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