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  title info:
    title: Plant Geography of Chile
  name:
    name part: Moreira-Munoz, Andres.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 346 p. online resource.
  abstract: The first and so far only Plant Geography of Chile was written about 100 years ago, since when many things have changed: plants have been renamed and reclassified; taxonomy and systematics have experienced deep changes as have biology, geography, and biogeography. The time is therefore ripe for a new look at Chile’s plants and their distribution. Focusing on three key issues – botany/systematics, geography and biogeographical analysis – this book presents a thoroughly updated synthesis both of Chilean plant geography and of the different approaches to studying it. Because of its range – from the neotropics to the temperate sub-Antarctic – Chile’s flora provides a critical insight into evolutionary patterns, particularly in relation to the distribution along the latitudinal profiles and the global geographical relationships of the country’s genera. The consequences of these relations for the evolution of the Chilean Flora are discussed. This book will provide a valuable resource for both graduate students and researchers in botany, plant taxonomy and systematics, biogeography, evolutionary biology and plant conservation.
  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.
  note: by Andres Moreira-Munoz.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geobiology
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
  subject:
    topic: Biogeosciences
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Nature Conservation
  classification: QK95
  classification: QK101-474.5
  classification: 578.012
  classification: 578.09
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Plant and Vegetation, 5
  identifier: 9789048187485
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8748-5
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    record creation date: 110118
    record change date: 20151030051455.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-8748-5