Plants on Islands
Subtitle: Diversity and Dynamics on a Continental Archipelago
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: June 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780520247291
Subjects: Plant ecology; Vegetation dynamics; Life Sciences - Botany; Environmental Science; Nature; Plant communities; Nature/Ecology; British Columbia; Ecology; Nature / General; Barkley Sound Region; Island plants
First sentence: IN 1846 SIR JOSEPH HOOKER delivered an intriguing paper to the Linnaean Society in London on the flora of the Galapagos Islands, the results of a study he had undertaken at the request of his friend Charles Darwin.