Illustrated Guide to the Tendrillate Climbers of Central America
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Professional
Published: November 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780813807584
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; South America; Identification; Costa Rica; Nature; Plants - General; Travel; Central America; Mountain plants; Agriculture - General; General; Gardening / General; Climbing plants; Forest plants
First sentence: Largely neglected in earlier botanical and ecological studies (Jacobs 1976; Putz 1984; Gentry 1991), climbers are important constituents of tropical forests, and arguably the single most important physiognomic character differentiating tropical forests from temperate forests (Croat 1978).