Plants of Oceanic Islands

Evolution, Biogeography, and Conservation of the Flora of the Juan Fernández (Robinson Crusoe) Archipelago
Herausgeber: Stuessy, Tod F; Ruiz, Eduardo A; Baeza, Carlos M; López-Sepúlveda, Patricio; Crawford, Daniel J

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive view of the origin and evolution of the plants of an entire oceanic archipelago.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 184mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1193g
• ISBN-13: 9781107180079
• ISBN-10: 1107180074
• Artikelnr.: 47739854

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Tod F. Stuessy
Daniel J. Crawford
Patricio López-Sepúlveda
Carlos M. Baeza and Eduardo Ruiz; Part I. Historical Aspects: 1. History of the islands Tod F. Stuessy; 2. Botanists in the islands Tod F. Stuessy and Clodomiro Marticorena; Part II. The Physical Setting: 3. Geology and soils Walter A. Sontag
Jr and Tod F. Stuessy; 4. Climate and weather Walter A. Sontag
Jr and Tod F. Stuessy; Part III. The Green Landscape: 5. Taxonomic inventory Tod F. Stuessy
Roberto Rodríguez
Carlos M. Baeza and Patricio López-Sepúlveda; 6. Vegetation Josef Greimler
Patricio López-Sepúlveda and Karl Reiter; Part IV. Plant Conservation: 7. Impacts on the vegetation Tod F. Stuessy
Clodomiro Marticorena
Ulf Swenson
Josef Greimler and Patricio López-Sepúlveda; 8. Invasive species Josef Greimler
Tod F. Stuessy
Ulf Swenson
Patricio López-Sepúlveda and Carlos M. Baeza; 9. Conservation of native and endemic species Tod F. Stuessy
Carlos M. Baeza
Patricio López-Sepúlveda
Roberto Rodríguez and Ulf Swenson; Part V. Patterns of Character Diversity: 10. Flavonoid compounds: taxonomic and phylogenetic implications Daniel J. Crawford
Mario Silva O.
Patricia Pacheco and Hugo Valdebenito; 11. Chromosome numbers Tod F. Stuessy and Carlos M. Baeza; 12. Reproductive biology Gregory J. Anderson and Gabriel Bernardello; Part VI. Evolutionary Processes: 13. Patterns of phylogeny Tod F. Stuessy
Daniel J. Crawford and Eduardo Ruiz; 14. Genetic diversity and divergence Daniel J. Crawford
Patricio López-Sepúlveda
Koji Takayama and Eduardo Ruiz; 15. Speciation Daniel J. Crawford
Tod F. Stuessy
Koji Takayama
Patricio López-Sepúlveda
Gregory J. Anderson and Gabriel Bernardello; Part VII. Biogeography: 16. Plant origins and dispersal Gabriel Bernardello and Gregory J. Anderson; 17. Modeling species diversity Walter A. Sontag
Jr
Tod F. Stuessy and Ulf Swenson; Conclusions Tod F. Stuessy
Daniel J. Crawford
Carlos M. Baeza
Patricio López-Sepúlveda
Josef Greimler
Eduardo Ruiz
Koji Takayama
Gregory J. Anderson
Gabriel Bernardello and Ulf Swenson.