
By Andres Moreira-Munoz
ISBN-10: 9048187478
ISBN-13: 9789048187478
ISBN-10: 9048187486
ISBN-13: 9789048187485
The first and up to now simply Plant Geography of Chile used to be written approximately a hundred years in the past, considering that while many stuff have replaced: vegetation were renamed and reclassified; taxonomy and systematics have skilled deep alterations as have biology, geography, and biogeography. The time is consequently ripe for a brand new examine Chile’s vegetation and their distribution.
Focusing on 3 key concerns – botany/systematics, geography and biogeographical research – this publication offers a completely up-to-date synthesis either one of Chilean plant geography and of the various techniques to learning it. due to its diversity – from the neotropics to the temperate sub-Antarctic – Chile’s plants presents a severe perception into evolutionary styles, really relating to the distribution alongside the latitudinal profiles and the worldwide geographical relationships of the country’s genera. the results of those family for the evolution of the Chilean plant life are discussed.
This e-book will supply a beneficial source for either graduate scholars and researchers in botany, plant taxonomy and systematics, biogeography, evolutionary biology and plant conservation.