Fifty Years of Southern Appalachian Botany - A Profile of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club
by Michael J. Baranski
Table 6. Interest area of members determined according to year of first membership. Values are percentages, followed by actual number of members expressing primary and secondary interests in parentheses (1,2) (1985).
| Interest area | 1936-45 | 1946-55 | 1956-65 | 1966-75 | 1976-85 |
| Floristics and distribution | 53 (5,4) | 40 (6,6) | 44 (23,17) | 40 (32,34) | 38 (96,100) |
| Vascular plant systematics | 35 (3,3) | 33 (5,5) | 36 (14,19) | 22 (23,14) | 22 (66,51) |
| Community ecology | 6 (0,1) | 17 (3,2) | 13 (6,6) | 26 (20,23) | 25 (72,59) |
| Physiological ecology | ----- | ----- | ----- | 4 (3,3) | 6 (9,23) |
| Non-vascular plant systematics | 6 (1,0) | 7 (0,2) | 4 (3,1) | 5 (4,4) | 4 (11,11) |
| Other interests | ----- | 3 (1,0) | 2 (0,2) | 4 (4,3) | 4 (12,11) |