Plant Geography of Chile /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011. |
| Series: | Plant and Vegetation,
5 |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Geobotanical scenario
- The extravagant physical geography of Chile
- Getting geobotanical knowledge
- Part II: Chorology of Chilean Plants
- Geographical relations of the Chilean flora
- Biogeographic regionalization
- Part III: Islands biogeography
- Pacific offshore islands
- Islands on the continent
- Part IV: Case studies on selected families
- Cactaceae, a weird family and postmodern evolution
- The richest family: Chilean Asteraceae
- Nothofagus, key genus in plant geography
- Part V: Where to from here? Projections of Chilean plant geography
- All the possible worlds of biogeography
- Epilogue
- Index.