Plant diversity of an Andean cloud forest : checklist of the vascular flora of Maquipucuna, Ecuador / Grady L. Webster and Robert M. Rhode.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webster, Grady L. (Grady Linder), 1927-2005.

Contributor:

Rhode, Robert M. (Robert Martin), 1961-

Series:

University of California publications in botany ; v. 82.

University of California publications. Botany ; v. 82.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany--Ecuador--Bosque Protector Maquipucuna Region.

Botany.

Bosque Protector Maquipucuna (Ecuador).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on work spanning a decade, this study of the Maquipucuna area on the western slopes of the Andes discusses the climate, vegetation, ecological relationships, and flora, and emphasizes the importance of the Maquipucuna area as a biological reserve. In addition to the checklist of the flora, which enumerates 1,650 species (including 228 species of pteridophytes and over 200 species of orchids), appendices give information on floristic composition of communities, distribution of epiphytes, and elevational ranges of families and genera. The illustrations include a map, landscapes, and characteristic species.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Acknowledgments

Abstract

Resumen

Introduction

Climate and topography

Vegetation

Floristics of ecuadorian cloud forests

Analysis of the vascular flora of maquipucuna

Relationships with other floras

Conservational status of the maquipucuna cloud forests

Circumscription of the region covered by the inventory

Enumeration of taxa

Appendix A. Dominant or conspicuous taxa of secondary and roadside vegetation in the Maquipucuna region, between 11 50 and 1500 m

Appendix B. Dominant or abundant taxa of primary cloud forest (lower montane forest), 1700-2000 m

Appendix C. Dominant or abundant taxa of upper montane forest, 21 00-2750 m

Appendix D. Dominant and conspicuous taxa in riparian vegetation, 1 125-2000 m

Appendix E. Distribution of epiphytes in the Maquipucuna vascular flora

Literature Cited

Plates

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612356209

9781282356207

1282356208

9780520915930

0520915933

OCLC:

609850015