Neotropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests: Plant Diversity, Biogeography, and Conservation

by R. Toby Pennington (Editor), James A. Ratter (Editor)

Overview

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 ne

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000611311
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	05/25/2006
Series:	Systematics Association Special Volumes
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	504
File size:	30 MB
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About the Author

R. Toby Pennington Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 20a Inverleith Row Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK [e-mail] Gwilym P. Lewis Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond Surrey TW9 3AB, UK [e-mail] James A. Ratter Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 20a Inverleith Row Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK [e-mail]

Table of Contents

The Phytogeography and Beta Diversity of the Brazilian Cerrados. Relationship of the Southern Cerrados with the Core Area. Diversity, Floristics and Structure of the Cerrado Vegetation of Central Brazil. The Flora and Vegetation of the Venezuelan Llanos. The Caatingas of Northeast Brazil. Floristic Relationships Among Seasonal Forests in SE Brazil and Their Links to Rain Forests, Cerrados, and Caatingas. Floristic and Structural Relationships of Tabuleiro Forests in NE Rio de Janero, Southern Bahia and Northern Espirito Santo. The Paraguay-Panama Basin as an Ecotone: Its Significance for Neotropical Biogeography and Palaeo-biogeography. The Forests of the Bolivian Chiquiotano. Interandean Valleys of Bolivia and Their Floristic Relationships: Insights from Acanthaceae, Apocycaceae and Labiatae. Seasonally Dry Forests of Southern Equador in a Continental Contest: Insights from Legumes. Phytogeography of Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests in Pacific Northwestern South America. Conservation of Tropical Dry Forests in Central America: Linking Regional and Local Scales in Biodiversity Assessment. Tropical Dry Forests in South Florida. An Alternative View of the Seasonally Dry Forests of Tropical Latin America: the Floristic Approach. The Seasonally Dry Vegetation of Africa - Parallels and Comparisons with the Neotropics. Population Genetic Studies of Astronium Urundeuva in Paraguay and the Inference of Ecosystem History. The Biogeographic History of Neotropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests: Insights from Molecular Phylogenies. Historical Links of Seasonally Dry Ecosystems of Africa and the Neotropics: Insights from Plant Molecular Phylogenies.