Fifty Years of Southern Appalachian Botany - A Profile of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club
by Michael J. Baranski
Table 5. Interest areas of members according to affiliation. Values are percentages of members indicating, in order, primary and secondary interests, followed by percentage interested in the area as a primary or secondary interests in parentheses. Data from 420 respondents (1985).
| Interest area | College or university | Other institution | No affiliation |
| Floristics and distribution | 27, 47 (37) | 58, 25 (41) | 56, 31 (44) |
| Vascular plant systematics | 33, 21 (27) | 15, 32 (23) | 16, 23 (19) |
| Community ecology | 27, 15 (21) | 22, 35 (28) | 17, 34 (25) |
| Physiological ecology | 3 8 (5) | 3, 4 (3) | 2, 4 (3) |
| Non-vascular plant systematics | 6, 6 (6) | ----- | 3, 3 (3) |
| Other areas | 4, 3 (3) | 2, 5 (3) | 6, 5 (6) |