Fifty Years of Southern Appalachian Botany - A Profile of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club
by Michael J. Baranski
Table 4. Interest areas of SABC members. Data from 420 respondents (1985).
| Primary | Secondary | Total (%) |
| Floristics and distribution | 161 | 162 | 324 (39) |
| Vascular plant systematics | 112 | 92 | 204 (25) |
| Community ecology | 99 | 90 | 192 (23) |
| Physiological ecology | 12 | 26 | 38 ( 5) |
| Non-vascular plant systematics | 19 | 18 | 37 ( 5) |
| Other areas | 17 | 16 | 33 ( 4) |