Flora of the Cayman Islands
Author | : George R. Proctor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 868 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George R. Proctor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 868 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frederic J. Burton |
Publisher | : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781842462201 |
This is the first Red List assessment of the entire Cayman Islands flora, covering all 415 species and varieties considered truly native to the Cayman Islands. It forms a comprehensive field guide to the unique plants of the Cayman Islands, with full-colour photographs of all the endemic and near-endemic plants of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. The natural vegetation communities are also presented, accompanied by a technical classification on compact disc. This book is for plant scientists, ecologists, landscapers and developers, and for the visitor who wishes to understand more about the vanishing natural beauty of these islands.
Author | : Richard Askew |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2013-01-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9004260870 |
This book will enable the identification of each of the 57 species of butterfly that has been recorded from the Cayman Islands. There is a description of every butterfly, stressing its most important characteristics, with photographs of living and mounted specimens. The distribution, history and biology of each species are reviewed and the plants which provide adult butterflies with nectar or feed their caterpillars are tabulated. A general introduction includes a discussion of the affinities and size of the Caymanian butterfly fauna. The three islands share most of their butterfly species but each island has uniquely characteristic elements and five subspecies live only in the Cayman Islands. Knowledge is fundamental to conservation; it is hoped that both the casual butterfly watcher and those more committed to the study of butterflies will discover much of interest in this book and thereby make a contribution to the continuing survival of these beautiful insects.
Author | : Fred Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Trees |
ISBN | : 9789768056221 |
Author | : Tod F. Stuessy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2017-10-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1107180074 |
This book provides a comprehensive view of the origin and evolution of the plants of an entire oceanic archipelago.
Author | : Jonathan D. Sauer |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780520096561 |
Author | : Patricia E. Bradley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Birds |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Albert Spear Hitchcock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. R. Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : 9781784270490 |
Flora of Madeira is the first book to describe fully all of the vascular plants of the Madeiran and Salvage Islands. It covers over 1360 species of native and naturalized plants, many of them little known. A high proportion of taxa, some 16%, are endemic to the islands themselves or are restricted to Macaronesia (the collective name for the archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira, Salvages, Canaries and Cape Verdes). Isolated from other land-masses, the Madeiran islands are botanically rich and diverse, and the rugged and beautiful landscape embraces a broad range of habitats. Madeira also contains the most extensive remaining areas of laurisilva, the evergreen forest which is the last representative of the ancient Tethyan forests of S. Europe and N. Africa. The remote Salvage Islands have a smaller but equally interesting flora. Flora provides descriptions and keys for taxa at all levels, as well as information on habitats, distributions and flowering times. Local names are also cited. Fifty-seven plates of original drawings illustrate 212 of the Madeiran and Macaronesian endemic taxa, some of them depicted for the first time. Introductory chapters describe the geography of the islands, the main vegetation types and the extensive measures being implemented to conserve this unique flora. Flora of Madeira is the only fully comprehensive publication on the wild flora of the Madeiran and Salvage Islands, for use as both a reference work and a field guide. This book is a digital reprint of ISBN 0-11-310017-5 (1994).
Author | : David Bramwell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2011-07-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1139497804 |
Oceanic islands offer biologists unparalleled opportunities to study evolutionary processes and ecological phenomena. However, human activity threatens to alter or destroy many of these fragile ecosystems, with recent estimates suggesting that nearly half of the world's insular endemics are threatened with extinction. Bringing together researchers from around the world, this book illustrates how modern research methods and new concepts have challenged accepted theories and changed our understanding of island flora. Particular attention is given to the impact of molecular studies and the insights that they provide into topics such as colonisation, radiation, diversification and hybridisation. Examples are drawn from around the world, including the Hawaiian archipelago, Galapagos Islands, Madagascar and the Macronesian region. Conservation issues are also highlighted, with coverage of alien species and the role of ex situ conservation providing valuable information that will aid the formulation of management strategies and genetic rescue programmes.