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Bringing together results from over 30 years of research on the Juan Fernández Archipelago off the coast of Chile, this book offers comprehensive coverage of the plants of these special islands. Despite its remote setting in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, the Juan Fernández Archipelago is in many ways an ideal place to ask and attempt to answer basic questions regarding the evolution of vascular plants in an oceanic island environment. By building upon a firm taxonomic base for the flora, a new level of understanding regarding evolution, biogeography, and conservation of the plants is presented. This book is an extensive investigation of the origin and evolution of the flora of an oceanic archipelago, and it serves as a valuable resource for researchers and scholars of island biology as well as for conservation biologists worldwide.
Increasingly governments worldwide are turning to the private sector to assist them in meeting their countries' infrastructure needs. The toolkit will assist governments in hiring and managing economic consultants, financial advisors and legal experts, as well as other specialists required to increase the role of the private sector in all infrastructure services. The boxed Toolkit, funded by the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) and designed by the World Bank's Private Sector Advisory Services Department, includes a CD-ROM self-guided tour of the material, an Executive Summary for senior officials, and 3 volumes which contain detailed information on the following subjects: Volume 1: What is PPI and how can advisors help? - Module 1: Principles of selection for advisory services to support PPI - Module 2: Identifying the stages of PPI - Module 3: The role of advisors - Module 4: Defining the project and the contract - Module 5: Use of advisors for small-scale projects Volume 2: Donor agencies and the funding of PPI advisory services - Module 6: Funding agency requirements Volume 3: How to select and manage PPI advisors - Module 7: Selecting advisors - Module 8: Paying advisors for their advice - Module 9: Managing the PPI advisory services
"The 2,308 species of tiger-moths (Arctiinae and Pericopinae) of the Neotropical Region are catalogued. Twelve new species names are proposed to replace junior homonyms, and 74 new synonymies are established together with 509 new combinations and 38 reversions to original combinations of generic and specific names. Six generic and 41 specific names are removed from synonymy and re-established as valid names. Fifteen names have been changed in status from species to subspecies rank, or the reverse. A lectotype is selected for Hypercompe scribonia (Stoll). Annotation of the catalogue entries indicates whether or not a species is represented in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History). A survey of the literature on Neotropical tiger-moths is presented. All but two of the type-species of the subfamily Pericopinae are illustrated in colour"--Page 1
Flavonoids are secondary plant products that have previously been shown to be helpful in determining relationships among plant groups. This work presents comprehensively the occurrence, patterns of variation, and systematic and evolutionary importance of flavonoids in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), the largest family of flowering plants (23,000 species). It gathers together the more than 2500 reports of flavonoids in Asteraceae published between 1950 to the present and interprets these data in context of new taxonomic (especially generic) alignments. The authors discuss flavonoid patterns with reference to modern phylogenetic studies based on morphology and DNA data. This book provides, therefore, the most exhaustive synthesis and evaluation of the systematic and evolutionary import of flavonoids ever accomplished for any large family of angiosperms.
Key features: The first reference book to provide a comprehensive treatment of the biogreography of the Andean region Includes lists of the synonyms for each area and examples of the plant and animal taxa characterizing them. An extensive reference section serves as an entry point for more in-depth research on individual subjects Discusses the relationships between the areas, formulating hypotheses explaining the relationships of different biotas, based on track and cladistic biogeographic analyses Identifies cenocrons that were assembled in the different biotas Contains maps that illustrate the distribution of particular taxa, area cladograms and vegetation profiles This book presents a regionalization of the Andean region, based on an evolutionary biogeographic approach. Aimed at anyone wishing to understand biogeographic patterns of distribution of Andean plants and animals, the book provides a comprehensive treatment of three subregions, one transition zone, and 16 provinces. Lists of the synonyms and examples of taxa characterizing each area are given, and the relationships between the areas discussed, alongside hypotheses explaining the assembly of different biotas. Several maps illustrate the distribution of particular taxa, as well as area cladograms, diagrams and full-color vegetation profiles.