Description
Neotropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests
Plant Diversity, Biogeography, and Conservation
Systematics Association Special Volumes Series
Coordinators: Pennington R. Toby, Ratter James A.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Neotropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests:
Keywords
Serra Da Capivara; royal; Anadenanthera Colubrina; botanic; SDTF; garden; Dry Forest; edinburgh; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; floristic; Cerrado Biome; composition; Semideciduous Forests; cerrado; Tabebuia Impetiginosa; sensu; inter-Andean Valleys; stricto; Tropical Dry Forests; biome; Cerrado Sensu Stricto; tropical savannas; North Eastern Mexico; endemism; Vegetation Classification; neotropical seasonally dry forest; Cerrado Domain; plant diversity; Cerrado Vegetation; savanna trees; Neotropical Savanna; Seasonal Semideciduous Forest; Yr BP; North Eastern Brazil; Dry Forest Species; South Eastern Brazil; Anadenanthera Colubrina Var; Seasonal Forests; Crown Clades; CCA Analysis
Publication date: 12-2019
· 17.8x25.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 05-2006
496 p. · 17.8x25.4 cm · Paperback
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More often than not, when people think of a neotropical forest, what comes to mind is a rain forest, rather than a dry forest. Just as typically, when they imagine a savanna, they visualize the African plains, rather than those dry woodlands and grasslands found in the Neotropics. These same preconceptions can be found among scientists, as these neotropical biomes receive nowhere near the attention they should - in terms of both research and conservation -considering the amount of land they encompass and the diversity of vegetation they contain.
Neotropical Savannas and Dry Forests: Plant Diversity, Biogeography, and Conservation provides an engaging synthesis of information on the plant diversity and geography, as well as the conservation status, of these species-rich areas. This impressive compilation is the result of a plant diversity symposium that took place during an international conference on tropical savannas and seasonally dry forests held in 2003. Fifty leading scientists, representing a variety of disciplines have contributed to the chapters of this book in an effort to address three questions:
This work is the first extensive compilation of the patterns of plant biodiversity in these neotropical ecosystems. The overview also provides a summary of what is known of their evolutionary history, including an examination of the links to the development of analogous vegetation in Africa. In contrast to previously published titles that emphasize ecology and physiology, this work focuses on plant biodiversity and reviews molecular phylogenetic and molecular population genetic approache