Lecture on Plant-Distribution as a Field for Geographical Research

Focusing on the interplay between memory and place, this article examines the rationale behind the use of axonometric drawings (axons) in a geographical research study of the Tumen/Tuman River region encompassing the borders shared by China, Russia and North Korea. The concepts of “memory of place” and “place of memory” guide the structure of this project and the flow of this article. “Memory of place” emphasises the lived experience of our physical senses, and helps determine the great potential of visual methodologies in the fields of geographical and landscape research and study. Drawn up using the graphic production techniques of abstracting, foregrounding, highlighting and juxtaposing, axons avail themselves of and inform both realist and idealist states of mind. In contrast, “place of memory” references a particular type of materiality and helps us understand Tumen Shan-shui as a library of memories that reveals a profusion of contested aesthetic, cultural and political meanings. Axons serve to tell narratives revealing desires, actions and undertakings that have shaped and continue to shape the substance of the memory sites in question including infrastructure, architecture and signage. Initially adopted by the author as a medium for recording and communicating due to security restrictions imposed in the border areas in question, the creation of axons generated new insights on methods of documentation in landscape research, and the places and landscapes themselves.

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Mapping plant distribution patterns: two pioneering examples from Ireland published in the 1860s

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.1993.20.3.391 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 391-403

Author(s):

E. CHARLES NELSON

Keyword(s):

Distribution Patterns ◽

Plant Distribution ◽

Plant Distribution Patterns

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John Lloyd Williams (1854–1945): profile of a Snowdonian botanist

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2006.33.1.1 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Dewi Jones

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Plant Physiology ◽

Marine Algae ◽

Plant Distribution ◽

The Arctic ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Major Study ◽

The Subject ◽

Late Nineteenth

John Lloyd Williams was an authority on the arctic-alpine flora of Snowdonia during the late nineteenth century when plant collecting was at its height, but unlike other botanists and plant collectors he did not fully pursue the fashionable trend of forming a complete herbarium. His diligent plant-hunting in a comparatively little explored part of Snowdonia led to his discovering a new site for the rare Killarney fern (Trichomanes speciosum), a feat which was considered a major achievement at the time. For most part of the nineteenth century plant distribution, classification and forming herbaria, had been paramount in the learning of botany in Britain resulting in little attention being made to other aspects of the subject. However, towards the end of the century many botanists turned their attention to studying plant physiology, a subject which had advanced significantly in German laboratories. Rivalry between botanists working on similar projects became inevitable in the race to be first in print as Lloyd Williams soon realized when undertaking his major study on the cytology of marine algae.

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Effective Environmental Factors on Plant Distribution in Semnan Rangelands of Iran

International Conference on Biological, Environment and Food Engineering (BEFE-2014) August 4-5, 2014 Bali (Indonesia) ◽

10.15242/iicbe.c814064 ◽

2014 ◽

Keyword(s):

Environmental Factors ◽

Plant Distribution

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A model of the analysis of the dynamics and structure of socio-economic development (an example of the set of the largest Polish cities in the years 1998–2015)

Urban Development Issues ◽

10.2478/udi-2019-0014 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 63 (1) ◽

pp. 25-37

Author(s):

Lidia Mierzejewska ◽

Jerzy Parysek

Keyword(s):

Principal Component Analysis ◽

Economic Development ◽

Development Process ◽

Principal Component ◽

The State ◽

Geographical Research ◽

Development Policies ◽

Socio Economic Development ◽

Development Processes ◽

State Of Affairs

Abstract The complexity of the reality studied by geographical research requires applying such methods which allow describing the state of affairs and ongoing changes in the best possible way. This study aims to present a model of research on selected aspects of the dynamics and structure of socio-economic development. The idea was to determine whether we deal with the process of reducing or widening the differences in terms of individual features. The article primarily pursues a methodological goal, and to a lesser extent an empirical one. The methodological objective of the paper was to propose and verify a multi-aspect approach to the study of development processes. The analyses carried out reveal that in terms of the features taken into account in the set of 24 of the largest Polish cities the dominating processes are those increasing differences between cities, which are unfavourable in the context of the adopted development policies aiming at reducing the existing disparities. In relation to the methodological objective, the results of the conducted research confirm the rationale of the application of the measures of dynamics and the feature variance to determine the character (dynamics and structure) of the socio-economic development process of cities. Comparatively less effective, especially for interpretation, is the application of principal component analysis and a multivariate classification, which is mainly the result of differences in the variance of particular features.

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