Guide to Tendrillate Climbers of Costa Rican Mountains

Guide to Tendrillate Climbers of Costa Rican Mountains
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192
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9780813807584
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Новые поступления академической литературы издательства Wiley

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Climbers, such as lianas and vines, are important constituents of tropical forests and perhaps the single most important physiognomic characteristic differentiating tropical from temperate forests, occurring on nearly 50% of forest trees in Central and South America. Despite their widespread nutritional and medicinal use, lianas remain poorly understood ecologically. Tendrillate Climbers offers comprehensive coverage of all of the tendrillate lianas of Costa Rica and most of the tendrillate lianas of Central America. This unique reference provides Excellent keys to families and separate keys to genera and species State–of–the–art nomenclature and lists of synonymy when other scientific names have been published or used informally Each species illustrated by the author’s hand–drawn line art An invaluable addition to our understanding of tropical forests, the book offers new information as well as information brought together from dispersed...

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