Biodiversity of Vegetation and Flora in Tropical Africa

• Diğer Yazarlar: Catarino, Luís (Editör), Romeiras, Maria (Editör)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Konular: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; ecotone; fire; forest core; habitat preference; Ngel Nyaki; niche partitioning; savannah; species sorting; torus translation; vegetation; aridification in NW Africa; Macaronesian islands; distribution patterns; West African Monsoon (WAM); vascular flora; African potato; conservation; commercialization; cultivation; Hypoxidaceae; medicinal plant; unsustainable harvesting; wild harvesting; woodland; miombo; savanna; diversity; disturbance; Baikiaea; biogeographic vicariance; extinction; phylogenomics; gene shopping; gene capture; molecular dating; Africa; biome; RADseq; Monechma; Justicia; phylogeny; plant diversity; Bia Tano Forest Reserve; gap; regeneration; species composition; species diversity; wildfires; MODIS burnt area product; WWF ecoregions; land cover; Miombo woodlands; biodiversity conservation; sub-Saharan Africa; flora; tropical biodiversity
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

African ecosystems comprise a wealthy repository of biodiversity, with a high proportion of native and endemic plant species, which makes them biologically unique and providers of a wide range of ecosystem services. A large part of African populations, in both rural and urban areas, depend on plants...