Plant diversity of an Andean cloud forest : checklist of the vascular flora of Maquipucuna, Ecuador / / Grady L. Webster and Robert M. Rhode
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| Autore: |
Webster Grady L (Grady Linder), <1927-2005.>
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| Titolo: |
Plant diversity of an Andean cloud forest : checklist of the vascular flora of Maquipucuna, Ecuador / / Grady L. Webster and Robert M. Rhode
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2001 |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (253 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 581.9866/13 |
| Soggetto topico: | Botany - Ecuador - Bosque Protector Maquipucuna Region |
| Soggetto geografico: | Bosque Protector Maquipucuna (Ecuador) |
| Soggetto non controllato: | andes |
| biodiversity | |
| botany | |
| climate | |
| cloud forest | |
| conservation | |
| ecology | |
| ecuador | |
| environment | |
| environmentalism | |
| epiphytes | |
| flora | |
| forest | |
| habitat | |
| life sciences | |
| maquipucuna | |
| mountains | |
| natural sciences | |
| natural world | |
| nature preserve | |
| nature | |
| nonfiction | |
| orchids | |
| plant diversity | |
| plant sciences | |
| plant species | |
| plants | |
| pteridophytes | |
| rainforest | |
| science | |
| wilderness | |
| yumbos | |
| Classificazione: | WI 9240 |
| Altri autori: |
RhodeRobert M <1961-> (Robert Martin)
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- Resumen -- Introduction -- Climate and topography -- Vegetation -- Floristics of ecuadorian cloud forests -- Analysis of the vascular flora of maquipucuna -- Relationships with other floras -- Conservational status of the maquipucuna cloud forests -- Circumscription of the region covered by the inventory -- Enumeration of taxa -- Appendix A. Dominant or conspicuous taxa of secondary and roadside vegetation in the Maquipucuna region, between 11 50 and 1500 m -- Appendix B. Dominant or abundant taxa of primary cloud forest (lower montane forest), 1700-2000 m -- Appendix C. Dominant or abundant taxa of upper montane forest, 21 00-2750 m -- Appendix D. Dominant and conspicuous taxa in riparian vegetation, 1 125-2000 m -- Appendix E. Distribution of epiphytes in the Maquipucuna vascular flora -- Literature Cited -- Plates |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Based on work spanning a decade, this study of the Maquipucuna area on the western slopes of the Andes discusses the climate, vegetation, ecological relationships, and flora, and emphasizes the importance of the Maquipucuna area as a biological reserve. In addition to the checklist of the flora, which enumerates 1,650 species (including 228 species of pteridophytes and over 200 species of orchids), appendices give information on floristic composition of communities, distribution of epiphytes, and elevational ranges of families and genera. The illustrations include a map, landscapes, and characteristic species. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Plant diversity of an Andean cloud forest |
| ISBN: | 1-282-35620-8 |
| 9786612356209 | |
| 0-520-91593-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810362503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
University of California publications in botany ; ; v. 82.