VEGETATION AND ENVIRONMENT ON THE BARBADOS COAST.

This article discusses a study which described gradients of the vegetation and environment at selected locations around the Barbados. The researcher examined the relationships between environmental variations and changes in the coastal vegetation. He used transects of contiguous quadrats orthogonal to the shore to describe vegetation. He found that some species are limited to certain zones within the three ecosystems by reason of aridity, ground and air salinity, sand petrology, soil development and soil grain-size. The study also showed that a few tolerant species are found in all three ecosystems and some zones from different ecosystems have a similar complement of species.