John D Thompson

Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean

Insights for Conservation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 194mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 965g
• ISBN-13: 9780198835158
• ISBN-10: 0198835159
• Artikelnr.: 59412018

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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