The conspectus is a summary of all the available ecological, geographical and taxonomic information collected in the survey for the target taxon through part or all of its range. The conspectus is arranged in order of plant names (listed either alphabetically or systematically) and, where appropriate, contains an index to the taxa included in the study.
If the scope of the investigation is broad in the geographical or
ecological sense, it may be necessary to provide a summary of the
ecogeographic data for each geographical or ecological subunit. For
instance, in Edmonds’ survey of African Corchorus (Edmonds, 1990), the
flowering time for each species in each country was listed rather than
providing one time range for the whole continent. This increased the
predictive value of the survey
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