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Informationen zum Autor Pennington! R. Toby; Ratter! James A. Klappentext This volume is the first extensive compilation of the patterns of plant biodiversity in the species-rich savannas and seasonally dry forests of the neotropics. Focusing on the molecular phylogenies and population genetics for uncovering biogeographic history! it addresses three questions: Where are the centers of species-richness and endemism that make up the floras of these ecosystems? How and why did this endemism and diversity arise? Are these ecosystems adequately protected! and if not how can this be best achieved? It also looks at evolutionary history! including links to the development of analogous vegetation in Africa. According to the Midwest Book Review (August 2006) this work is ..".a seminal and necessary addition to professional and academic library Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies reference collections." Zusammenfassung This new addition to the prestigious Systematics Association Special Volumes Series is the first extensive compilation of the patterns of plant biodiversity in the species-rich savannas and seasonally dry forests of the neotropics. Focusing on the molecular phylogenies and molecular population genetics for uncovering biogeographic history, it addre Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. ...
