Biodiversity of Vegetation and Flora in Tropical Africa
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...
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| description | 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 for their survival and welfare, but many ecosystems are being degraded, mostly due to the growing impacts of climate change and other anthropogenic actions and environmental problems. Loss of habitat and biodiversity affects livelihoods, water supply and food security and reduces the resilience of ecosystems in the African continent. The knowledge about the great African plant and ecosystem diversity, and the structure, composition and processes involved in vegetation dynamics, is crucial to promote their sustainable use and to preserve one of the most understudied regions in the world. This Special Issue aimed to gather contributions that update and improve such knowledge. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-693652024-03-28T03:33:50Z Biodiversity of Vegetation and Flora in Tropical Africa Catarino, Luís Romeiras, Maria 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 thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences 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 for their survival and welfare, but many ecosystems are being degraded, mostly due to the growing impacts of climate change and other anthropogenic actions and environmental problems. Loss of habitat and biodiversity affects livelihoods, water supply and food security and reduces the resilience of ecosystems in the African continent. The knowledge about the great African plant and ecosystem diversity, and the structure, composition and processes involved in vegetation dynamics, is crucial to promote their sustainable use and to preserve one of the most understudied regions in the world. This Special Issue aimed to gather contributions that update and improve such knowledge. 2021-05-01T15:47:57Z 2021-05-01T15:47:57Z 2020 book ONIX_20210501_9783039435319_1111 9783039435319 9783039435326 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69365 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3158 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3158 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-03943-532-6 10.3390/books978-3-03943-532-6 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783039435319 9783039435326 180 Basel, Switzerland open access |
| spellingShingle | 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 thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences Biodiversity of Vegetation and Flora in Tropical Africa |
| title | Biodiversity of Vegetation and Flora in Tropical Africa |
| title_full | Biodiversity of Vegetation and Flora in Tropical Africa |
| title_fullStr | Biodiversity of Vegetation and Flora in Tropical Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biodiversity of Vegetation and Flora in Tropical Africa |
| title_short | Biodiversity of Vegetation and Flora in Tropical Africa |
| title_sort | biodiversity of vegetation and flora in tropical africa |
| topic | 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 thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences |
| topic_facet | 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 thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences |
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