Fifty Years of Southern Appalachian Botany - A Profile of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club
by Michael J. Baranski

Table 9. Papers published in Castanea arranged by category in each decade.  Values are percentages.  Only research-type papers of three or more pages are included.


Category
Vols. 1-10
1936-45
Vols. 11-20
1946-55
Vols. 21-30
1956-65
Vols. 31-40
1966-75
Vols. 41-50
1976-85

Mean
Floristics and distribution 43.0 39.4 43.0 39.3 38.9 40.7
Vascular plant systematics 27.6 24.0 28.2 21.3 22.5 24.7
Community ecology 4.9 7.7 5.9 17.3 20.6 11.3
Non-vascular plant systematics, distribution, ecology 13.0 9.6 11.1 8.8 4.8 9.5
Physiological ecology 2.4 8.6 3.7 3.7 8.2 5.3
Other 8.9 10.6 8.2 9.6 5.1 8.5
No. of papers 123 104 135 272 316