Neotropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests: Plant Diversity, Biogeography, and ConservationR. Toby Pennington, James A. Ratter CRC Press, 25 mai 2006 - 504 pages More often than not, when people think of a neotropical forest, what comes to mind is a rain forest, rather than a dry forest. Just as typically, when they imagine a savanna, they visualize the African plains, rather than those dry woodlands and grasslands found in the Neotropics. These same preconceptions can be found among scientists, as these ne |
Table des matières
R Toby Pennington Gwilym P Lewis and James A Ratter | |
Chapter 1 | |
Biodiversity Patterns of the Woody Vegetation of the Brazilian Cerrados | |
Observations on the Southern Cerrados and Their Relationship with the Core Area | |
Chapter 5 | |
A Review | |
Phytogeographical Patterns Inferred from Distribution Data of | |
Floristic Relationships of Seasonally Dry Forests of Eastern South America Based on Tree Species | |
Insights from Legumes | |
Acknowledgements | |
ChamelaCuixmala Jalisco as a Focal | |
What Determines Dry Forest Conservation in Mesoamerica? Opportunism and Pragmatism in Mexican | |
Botanical and Ecological Basis for the Resilience of Antillean Dry Forests | |
Diversity Biogeography and Conservation of Woody Plants in Tropical Dry Forest of South Florida | |
Chapter 18 | |
Floristic and Geographical Stability of Discontinuous Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests Explains Patterns | |
Biogeography of the Forests of the ParaguayParaná Basin | |
The Chiquitano Dry Forest the Transition Between Humid and Dry Forest in Eastern Lowland Bolivia | |
Insights from | |
Chapter 11 | |
Parallels and Comparisons with the Neotropics | |
Chapter 20 | |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
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