Larsen, Kai; Holm-Nielsen, Lauritz B. , Eds. Tropical Botany , London: Academic Press, 1979.

Illustrated by Maps, Illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 012437350X Dust jacket complete, but small closed tears. Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Name on ffep. 453 pages clean and tight. The most diverse plant resources of any region in the world are found in the tropics. This renders the study of tropical plant life. important and urgent since large areas of natural vegetation, particularly forests, are being destroyed. Accelerated exploitation of tropical areas causes known and unknown problems but more significantly it hampers optimal use due to lack of knowledge about the natural vegetation. In general tropical floras are very poorly known, and vast tropical areas are botanically unknown. Biological and ecological studies are even more scarce. This emphasizes the need for higher priorities for field work in the tropics. This book contains a series of papers on tropical botany covering a rich field of knowledge, from plate tectonics and palynology and their importance for understanding the evolution of floras, to topics such as dispersal, evolution of species and pollination biology. For the first time all these subjects have been drawn together in relation to tropical vegetation, the most endangered plant community on the world's surface today. Contributors include outstanding botanists from major botanical centres sych as the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London ;the Smithsonian Institution and The New York Botanical Garden; Laboratoire Phanerogamie, Paris; the Rijksherbarium, Leiden; and the Universities of Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan. This work, covering a wide range of tropical botany, will provide a key to the most important literature on the subject to the present day, and therefore serve as a unique reference work for biologists, ecologists and botanists for many years. (Book ref. 128491)  £49.00

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