Book ID: 67696
Veblen, Thomas T., Robert S. Hill and Jennifer Read (eds.)
The Ecology and Biogeography of Nothofagus Forests.1996. Illustr. VIII,403 p. gr8vo.Cloth.
Discussion of the long-term and broad-scale patterns of origin anddifferentiation in the genus Nothofagus. Each major Nothofagus biome isdiscussed considering contemporary ecological patterns and history andpaleoecology of the region. Covers the temperate zone of the SouthwestPacific region (New Zealand and Australia), the adjacent tropical zoneof the Southwest Pacific (New Guinea and New Caledonia), and SouthAmerica, ranging from the Mediterranean-type climate region of CentralChile to the subantarctic latitudes of Tierra del Fuego.