Fynbos
Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of a Megadiverse Region
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 January 2016
- ISBN 9780198777762
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages398 pages
- Size 248x190x23 mm
- Weight 802 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A synthesis of the ecology and evolution of South Africa's fynbos region, offering insights into megadiversity throughout the world.
MoreLong description:
South Africa's fynbos region has intrigued biologists for centuries. It has achieved iconic status as a locus of megadiversity and therefore a place to study the ecological underpinnings of massive evolutionary radiations. Researchers have made great advances over the past two decades in unravelling the complexities of fynbos ecology and evolution, and the region has contributed significant insights into the adaptive radiations of large lineages, conservation science, pollination biology, invasive plant biology, and palaeoanthropology. Lessons from the fynbos offer much of value for understanding the origin, maintenance, and conservation of diversity anywhere in the world.
This book provides the first synthesis of the field for 20 years, bringing together the latest ecological and evolutionary research on the South African global biodiversity hotspots of the Greater Cape Floristic Region - the iconic fynbos and succulent karoo. It explores the historical and modern physical and biological environment of this region, the circumstances and processes which have fostered its remarkable biodiversity, and the role this diversity has played in the emergence of modern humans. It also discusses the challenges of contemporary management and conservation of the region's biodiversity in the face of accelerating global change.
[It] forms an affordable compendium of our current state of knowledge regarding this extraordinary ecoregion.
Table of Contents:
Vegetation types of the Greater Cape Floristic Region
Landscapes, rock types and climate of the Greater Cape Floristic Region
Drivers, ecology and management of fire in fynbos
Floristic and faunal Cape biochoria: do they exist?
Cenozoic assembly of the Greater Cape flora
Speciation and extinction in the Greater Cape Floristic Region
The shifting landscape of genes since the Pliocene: terrestrial phylogeography in the Greater Cape Floristic Region
Stone age people in a changing South African Greater Cape Floristic Region
The assembly and function of Cape plant communities in a changing world
Biotic interactions
Plant ecophysiological diversity
Biological invasions in the Cape Floristic Region: history, current patterns, impacts, and management challenges
Impacts of climate change in the Greater Cape Floristic Region
Conserving the Cape Floristic Region
People, the Cape Floristic Region and Sustainability
Geography, climate and biodiversity: the history and future of mediterranean-type ecosystems
