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Author : Emily Jane Lott
Release : 1993
Genre : Botany
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Book Synopsis Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the Chamela Bay Region, Jalisco, Mexico by : Emily Jane Lott
Download or read book Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the Chamela Bay Region, Jalisco, Mexico written by Emily Jane Lott. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul S. Martin
Release : 2021-11-30
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants by : Paul S. Martin
Download or read book Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants written by Paul S. Martin. This book was released on 2021-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Río Mayo region of northwestern Mexico is a major geographic area whose natural history remains poorly known to outsiders. Lying in a region where desert and tropical, northern and southern, and continental and coastal species converge, it boasts an abundance of flora first documented by Howard Scott Gentry in 1942 in a book now widely regarded as a classic of botanical literature. This new book updates and amends Gentry's Río Mayo Plants. Undertaken with Gentry's support and participation before his death in 1993, it reproduces the original text, which appears here with annotations, and contains information on over 2,800 taxa—more than twice the 1,200 species first described by Gentry. The annotated list of plants includes information on distribution, habitat, appearance, common names, and indigenous uses. A new introduction provides historical background and a review of geography and vegetation. It also describes changes to the land and river wrought by agricultural development, expanded grazing, and lumbering. Throughout the text, the authors have endeavored to provide information on Río Mayo vegetation while emphasizing local knowledge and use of plants, to preserve Gentry's field-oriented focus, and to present botanical information with Gentry's exuberance and style. Río Mayo Plants has long stood as a book that displays a scientist's love of the English language, his fondness for native peoples, and his eye for beauty in nature. This updating of that work fills a gap in the botanical literature of this portion of North America and will be useful not only for botanists but also for biogeographers, taxonomists, land managers, and conservationists.
Author : Alejandro Velázquez
Release : 2016-08-16
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 221/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Standardized Hierarchical Vegetation Classification by : Alejandro Velázquez
Download or read book Standardized Hierarchical Vegetation Classification written by Alejandro Velázquez. This book was released on 2016-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the transitions between cultured and natural land cover/vegetation types and their implications in the search for alternatives to reverse the trend of anthropogenic environmental degradation. It also elaborates on the proposed “standardized hierarchical Mexican vegetation classification system” and geobotanical mapping, a critical transversal environmental issue. The first chapter consists of an historical review of the common approaches to the study of vegetation both in Mexico and in other regions of the world. The second chapter concisely analyzes the existing schools of thought that have led to the development of vegetation classification systems based on physiognomic, structural and floristic approaches. The focal point of the book is the “standardized hierarchical Mexican vegetation classification system” (SECLAVEMEX – “Sistema jerárquico estandarizado para la clasificación de la vegetación de México”). Chapter 3 describes the system’s organizational levels along with the criteria defining them and the nomenclatural basis for the denomination of each type of vegetation. It also includes a series of tables explaining and precisely defining the meaning of each concept, criterion, character and element used to help readers successfully identify the type of vegetation in a determined area. The fourth chapter highlights SECLAVEMEX's inclusive character as evidenced through its compatibility with other systems currently used around the globe. Three concepts are critically reviewed: land cover, land use and vegetation. These are often the study subject of the contrasting disciplines geography, agronomy and ecology, which all rely upon plant species assemblages. As such, the final chapter focuses on a critical transversal environmental issue – geobotanical mapping. Geobotanical mapping offers a baseline for land cover/use planning and provides critical information on ecological, economic and cultural attributes, which can be used as a basis for environmental-policy decisions. The proposed SECLAVEMEX was applied to Mexico as an example of land cover, land use and vegetation patterns intermingling as the result of a long human influence. SECLAVEMEX, however, can be adapted and hopefully adopted globally as a baseline for consistently comparing geobotanical patterns and their transitions.
Author : Rogers McVaugh
Release : 1993
Genre : Botany
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Book Synopsis Flora Novo-Galiciana by : Rogers McVaugh
Download or read book Flora Novo-Galiciana written by Rogers McVaugh. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Toby Pennington
Release : 2006-05-25
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 492/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Neotropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests by : R. Toby Pennington
Download or read book Neotropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests written by R. Toby Pennington. This book was released on 2006-05-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
