Book ID: 103124
Stevenson, Dennis Wm., Roy Osborne and Alberto Sidney Taylor Blake
Proceedings of Cycad 2008. The 8th International Congress on Cycad Biology, 13 - 16 January 2008, Panama City, Panama. 2012.(Mem. N. Y. Bot. Garden,106). illus. XXV, 554 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Cycads have been around since the Late Permian. Having survived for250 million years, cycads now find themselves endangered as a result ofhuman activity. This volume addresses the issues from angles thatinclude conservation biology, pest control, the role of insects and birds in cycad biology, and the role of cycads in various humancultural contexts.