Vegetation of the Canary Islands

• Main Authors: del Arco Aguilar, Marcelino J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Rodríguez Delgado, Octavio (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Plant and Vegetation, 16
• Subjects: Biodiversity.; Ecosystems.; Plant systematics.; Plant taxonomy.; Plant ecology.; Environmental geography.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Plant Ecology.; Environmental Geography.

This book describes the vegetation of the Canary Islands for students and scholars of nature. It shows the great floristic and vegetation biodiversity of these Islands as related to their geology and bioclimatology and emphasizes that the Islands constitute natural laboratories for studies on their...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Geographic framework
• 3. Climate
• 4. Bioclimate
• 5. Biogeography
• 6. Other Floristic Considerations
• 7. Vegetation of the Canary Islands
• 8. Change in the Natural Landscape through Human Influence
• 9. Conservation Status of Flora and Vegetation
• Appendices
• Index. .