Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean - Insights for Conservation

This timely and comprehensive update of the original text integrates a diverse and scattered literature to produce a synthetic account of Mediterranean plant evolutionary ecology. It maintains the accessible style of its previous version whilst incorporating recent work in the context of a new structural framework.

List of contents

• Prelude


• 1: A Mediterranean history


• 2: The ecology and biogeography of endemism


• 3: The evolution of endemic plants


• 4: The evolution of a cultural heritage


• 5: Plant traits and ecological dynamics


• 6: Plant reproduction: ecological interactions, evolutionary change


• 7: Conservation in the crossroads of history


• 8: One of five


• 9: Science and nature in a changing Mediterranean world

About the author

John D. Thompson is a research director with the CNRS at the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) in Montpellier, France where he works on the ecology, adaptation, and conservation of Mediterranean plant biodiversity. He is President of the scientific commission for the Mercantour National Park, President of the National Parks Scientific Commission for the French National Biodiversity Agency, and member of the scientific commissions of the Mediterranean Botanical Conservancy (France) and the Calanques National Park.

Summary

This timely and comprehensive update of the original text integrates a diverse and scattered literature to produce a synthetic account of Mediterranean plant evolutionary ecology. It maintains the accessible style of its previous version whilst incorporating recent work in the context of a new structural framework.

Product details

• Authors: John D. Thompson, John D. (Director of Research Thompson, Thompson John D.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2020
• EAN: 9780198835141
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883514-1
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, Biodiversity, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, Pollution & threats to the environment, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Botany & plant sciences, Mediterranean countries, Pollution and threats to the environment, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Botany and plant sciences