TY - BOOK AU - Klages,K.H.W. TI - Ecological crop geography U1 - 630.2815 20 PY - 1942/// CY - New York PB - Macmillan KW - Crops and climate KW - Crop zones KW - Agriculture KW - Economic aspects N1 - CONTENTS PART I : THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT OF CROP PLANTS The scope of ecological crop geography The historical background to agricultural production Population in relation to agricultural development Factors determining world centers of population and agricultural production The social environment PART II : THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMNET OF CROP PLANTS The physiological environment External factors in relation to development Physiological limits Crop yields and variability in relation to the ecological optimum Adaptation PART III : THE ECOLOGICAL FACTORS General aspects of moisture relationships Quantitative aspects of moisture relationships Humidity provinces The use of water by plants Special responses of crop plants to the moisture factor Temperature Temperature efficiencies and bioclimatics in relation to crop distribution Light Air Movement Classification of climate Edaphic and physiographic factors PART IV : THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF CROP PLANTS The small grain crops The coarse cereals Edible legumes Potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams and other root crops Sugar Oil producing crops Fiber crops Annual leguminous forage crops Biennial and perennial leguminous forage crops Perennial forage grasses Miscellaneous crops ; Includes bibliographies ER -