| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover -- Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean: Insights for Conservation -- Copyright -- Preface -- Old, new, borrowed, and blue -- The contribution of many -- A particular place, a singular history -- Final precisions before reading -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1: A Mediterranean history -- The Mediterranean triptych -- Geological foundations -- Tertiary flora and climate -- A truly ancient flora -- Into the Miocene -- Messinian desiccation -- The return of the Mediterranean Sea -- The onset of the Mediterranean climate -- Quaternary climate oscillations -- The beginnings of a human footprint |
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Climate warming and human activities -- Fire -- Towards the contemporary mosaic landscape -- Phased history -- CHAPTER 2: The ecology and biogeographyof endemism -- Diversity and endemism -- Floristic origins: the Mediterranean confluence -- Historical biogeographic affinities -- Bioclimatic variation and landscape diversity -- Species diversity on islands -- The diversity of island contexts -- Species diversity in relation to island size and heterogeneity -- Diversity and endemism: divergent patterns -- An essay on endemism -- Of mountains and islands -- The terrestrial-aquatic interface |
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Disjunct endemism and floristic affinities -- The persistence niche -- Ecological originality of peripheral populations -- Towards processes -- CHAPTER 3: The evolution of endemic plants -- Evolutionary processes in a Mediterranean setting -- Tertiary lineage diversification and paleo-endemism -- Early origins of east-west lineage divergence -- Tertiary endemics -- Diversification since the Tertiary -- Phased, spatial divergence -- Aegea and the East Mediterranean -- Central Mediterranean land bridges -- The West Mediterranean -- The Pillars of Hercules -- Footprints of glacial refugia |
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Crisis ... what crisis? -- CHAPTER 4: The evolution of a cultural heritage -- The onset of agriculture -- The initiation of domestication -- Trait evolution through domestication -- Out of the East -- Diversity and differentiation during dispersal -- Back to the wild -- Hand in hand -- A reservoir of resources -- CHAPTER 5: Plant traits and ecological dynamics -- The summer drought -- Summer drought and functional traits -- Trait evolution in relation to aridity -- Rainfall variability -- Towards persistence -- Dispersal dynamics -- Colonization and succession |
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Ecological dynamics in terrestrial plant communities -- Ecological dynamics across the sea-land interface -- The role of fire in ecological dynamics and trait evolution -- Post-fire dynamics and resilience -- Traits and regeneration strategies -- Aromatic plants -- Abundance and chemical diversity -- Functions and interactions -- Variation and adaptation in relation to soils and climate -- Trait variation and ongoing climate change -- CHAPTER 6: Plant reproduction -- Flowers of the Mediterranean -- Flowering phenology -- Generalization and specialization in the pollination niche |
| Summary |
This timely and comprehensive update of the original text integrates a diverse and scattered literature to produce a synthetic account of Mediterranean plant evolutionary ecology. It maintains the accessible style of its previous version whilst incorporating recent work in the context of a new structural framework |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Contemporary and historical constraints |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 09, 2020) |
| Subject |
Plants -- Evolution -- Mediterranean Region
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Plant ecophysiology -- Mediterranean Region
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Acclimatization (Plants) -- Mediterranean Region
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Plants -- Evolution -- Europe
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Plant ecophysiology.
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Acclimatization (Plants)
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Plants -- Evolution
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Mediterranean Region.
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192572035 |
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0192572032 |
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9780191872884 |
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0191872881 |
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