Neotropical savannas and seasonally dry forests : plant diversity, biogeography, and conservation /: plant diversity, biogeography, and conservation. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by R. Toby Pennington, Gwilym P. Lewis, James A. Ratter.
• Other Names: Pennington, Toby; Lewis, G. P; Ratter, J. A
• Contents: Ch. 1. An overview of the plant diversity, biogeography and conservation of neotropical savannas and seasonally dry forests / R. Toby Pennington, Gwilym P. Lewis and James A. Ratter -- Ch. 2. Biodiversity patterns of the woody vegetation of the Brazilian Cerrados / James A. Ratter, Samuel Bridgewater and J. Felipe Ribeiro -- Ch. 3. Observations on the Southern Cerrados and their relationship with the core area / Giselda Durigan -- Ch. 4. Phytogeography of Cerrado Sensu Stricto and land system zoning in Central Brazil / Jeanine Maria Felfili, Maria Cristina Felfili, Christopher William Fagg, Alba Valeria Rezende, Paulo Ernane Nogueira and Manoel Claudio da Silva Junior -- Ch. 5. Flora and vegetation of the Venezuelan Llanos : a review / Otto Huber, Rodrigo Duno de Stefano, Gerardo Aymard and Ricarda Riina -- Ch. 6. The Brazilian Caatinga : phytogeographical patterns inferred from distribution data of the Leguminosae / Luciano Paganucci de Queiroz -- Ch. 7. Floristic relationships of seasonally dry forests of Eastern South America based on tree species distribution patterns / Ary T. Oliveira-Filho, Joao Andre Jarenkow and Maria Jesus Nogueira Rodal -- Ch. 8. Biogeography of the forests of the Paraguay-Parana basin / Rodolphe Spichiger, Bastian Bise, Clement Calenge and Cyrille Chatelain -- Ch. 9. The Chiquitano dry forest, the transition between humid and dry forest in eastern lowland Bolivia / Timothy J. Killeen, Ezequial Chavez, Marielos Pena-Claros, Marisol Toledo, Luzmila Arroyo, Judith Caballero, Lisete Correa, Rene Guillen, Roberto Quevedo, Mario Saldias, Liliana Soria, Ynes Uslar, Israel Vargas and Marc Steininger -- Ch. 10. Inter-Andean dry valleys of Bolivia -- floristic affinities and patterns of endemism : insights from Acanthaceae, Asclepiadaceae and Labiatae / John R.I. Wood -- Ch. 11. Phytogeography and floristics of seasonally dry tropical forests in Peru / Reynaldo Linares-Palomino. Ch. 12. Seasonally dry forests of Southern Ecuador in a continental context : insights from legumes / Gwilym P. Lewis, Bente B. Klitgaard and Brian D. Schrire -- Ch. 13. Mexican and Central American seasonally dry tropical forests : Chamela-Cuixmala, Jalisco, as a focal point for comparison / Emily J. Lott and Thomas H. Atkinson -- Ch. 14. What determines dry forest conservation in Mesoamerica? : opportunism and pragmatism in Mexican and Nicaraguan protected areas / James E. Gordon, Evan Bowen-Jones and Marco Antonio Gonzalez -- Ch. 15. Botanical and ecological basis for the resilience of Antillean dry forests / Ariel E. Lugo, Ernesto Medina, J. Carlos Trejo-Torres and Eileen Helmer -- Ch. 16. Diversity, biogeography and conservation of woody plants in tropical dry forest of South Florida / Thomas W. Gillespie -- Ch. 17. The late quaternary biogeographical history of South American seasonally dry tropical forests : insights from Palaeo-ecological data / Francis E. Mayle -- Ch. 18. Population genetics and inference of ecosystem history : an example using two neotropical seasonally dry forest species / Y. Naciri, S. Caetano, R.T. Pennington, D. Prado and R. Spichiger -- Ch. 19. Floristic and geographical stability of discontinuous seasonally dry tropical forests explains patterns of plant phylogeny and endemism / Matt Lavin -- Ch. 20. The seasonally dry vegetation of Africa : parallels and comparisons with the neotropics / J. Michael Lock.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC/Taylor & Francis
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (484 pages, [8] pages of plates), illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
• Subjects: 577.30913; Forest ecology -- Tropics; Savanna ecology -- Tropics; Rheumatism -- Animal models -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Medicine; Science; Science: Biology -- Natural History; Écologie forestière -- Régions tropicales -- Congrès; Écologie des savanes -- Régions tropicales -- Congrès; NATURE -- Ecology; NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness; SCIENCE -- Environmental Science; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Forest ecology; Savanna ecology; Savanne; Trockenwald; Biogeographie; Tropics; Neotropische Region; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420004496; 1420004492
• Related ISBNs: 0849329876; 9780849329876
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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