Book ID: 98020
Moreira-Munoz, Andrés
Plant Geography of Chile. 2010. (Plant and Vegetation, 5). col. photogr. illus. XXI, 343 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Focusing on three key issues- botany/systematics, geography andbiogeographical analysis- this book presents a thoroughly updatedsynthesis both of Chilean plant geography and of the different approaches to studying it. Because of this range, Chile's flora provides a critical insight into evolutionary patterns, particularly inrelation to the distribution along the latitudinal profiles and theglobal geographical relationships of the country's genera. The consequences of these relations for the evolution of the Chilean Floraare discussed.