Environmental History of Oceanic Islands Natural and Human Impacts on the Vegetation of the Juan Fernández (Robinson Crusoe) Archipelago /: Natural and Human Impacts on the Vegetation of the Juan Fernández (Robinson Crusoe) Archipelago. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Tod F. Stuessy.
• Other Names: Stuessy, Tod F
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Archipelago -- Chapter 2. The importance of the islands -- Part II. Modern flora and vegetation -- Chapter 3. Native and endemic flora -- Chapter 4. Introduced species -- Chapter 5. Vegetational patterns -- PART III. Three historial documentation of human activities -- Chapter 6. Discovery and early exploration (1574-1749) -- Chapter 7. Colonial period (1750-1819) -- Chapter 8. Early botanical period (1820-1875) -- Chapter 9. Floristic period (1876-1906) -- Chapter 10. Skottsberg (1907-1917) -- Chapter 11. Touristic period (1918-1959) -- Chapter 12. Modern period (1960-present) -- Part IV. Summaries of impacts on vegetation -- Chapter 13. Natural factors -- Chapter 14. Human influences -- Part V. Conservation -- Chapter 15. Existing conservation efforts -- Chapter 16. Recommendations for the future -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing Imprint: Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (XX, 341 pages), 106 illustrations, 39 illustrations in color
• Subjects: 980; Latin America--History; Historical geography; Conservation biology; Ecology; Environmental geography; Ethnology; Oceanography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030478711; 3030478718
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