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 |