Plants of Oceanic Islands Evolution, Biogeography, and Conservation of the Flora of the Juan Fernández (Robinson Crusoe) Archipelago

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.

Introduction Tod F. Stuessy, Daniel J. Crawford, Patricio López-Sepúlveda, Carlos M. Baeza and Eduardo Ruiz; Part I. Historical Aspects: 1. History of the islands Tod F. Stuessy; 2. Botanists in the islands Tod F. Stuessy and Clodomiro Marticorena; Part II. The Physical Setting: 3. Geology and soils Walter A. Sontag, Jr and Tod F. Stuessy; 4. Climate and weather Walter A. Sontag, Jr and Tod F. Stuessy; Part III. The Green Landscape: 5. Taxonomic inventory Tod F. Stuessy, Roberto Rodríguez, Carlos M. Baeza and Patricio López-Sepúlveda; 6. Vegetation Josef Greimler, Patricio López-Sepúlveda and Karl Reiter; Part IV. Plant Conservation: 7. Impacts on the vegetation Tod F. Stuessy, Clodomiro Marticorena, Ulf Swenson, Josef Greimler and Patricio López-Sepúlveda; 8. Invasive species Josef Greimler, Tod F. Stuessy, Ulf Swenson, Patricio López-Sepúlveda and Carlos M. Baeza; 9. Conservation of native and endemic species Tod F. Stuessy, Carlos M. Baeza, Patricio López-Sepúlveda, Roberto Rodríguez and Ulf Swenson; Part V. Patterns of Character Diversity: 10. Flavonoid compounds: taxonomic and phylogenetic implications Daniel J. Crawford, Mario Silva O., Patricia Pacheco and Hugo Valdebenito; 11. Chromosome numbers Tod F. Stuessy and Carlos M. Baeza; 12. Reproductive biology Gregory J. Anderson and Gabriel Bernardello; Part VI. Evolutionary Processes: 13. Patterns of phylogeny Tod F. Stuessy, Daniel J. Crawford and Eduardo Ruiz; 14. Genetic diversity and divergence Daniel J. Crawford, Patricio López-Sepúlveda, Koji Takayama and Eduardo Ruiz; 15. Speciation Daniel J. Crawford, Tod F. Stuessy, Koji Takayama, Patricio López-Sepúlveda, Gregory J. Anderson and Gabriel Bernardello; Part VII. Biogeography: 16. Plant origins and dispersal Gabriel Bernardello and Gregory J. Anderson; 17. Modeling species diversity Walter A. Sontag, Jr, Tod F. Stuessy and Ulf Swenson; Conclusions Tod F. Stuessy, Daniel J. Crawford, Carlos M. Baeza, Patricio López-Sepúlveda, Josef Greimler, Eduardo Ruiz, Koji Takayama, Gregory J. Anderson, Gabriel Bernardello and Ulf Swenson.

Tod F. Stuessy is Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University and University of Vienna. His interests include principles of classification, island biology, and plant genetic variation and speciation. He is the author or editor of thirteen books and over three hundred scientific papers. He has won the Engler Medal in Gold and was co-recipient of the Stebbins Medal for Plant Taxonomy from the International Association. He has also won the Asa Gray Award for the American Society of Plant Taxonomy, the Merit Award and Centennial Awards from the Botanical Society of America. A former President of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Secretary-General of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, and Vice President of the International Botanical Congress 2005 Vienna, Austria. He is also a former Director of the Ohio State Herbarium and Museum of Biological Diversity.
Daniel J. Crawford is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas. He is the author and editor of three prior books and is author/co-author of over 220 publications, including twenty book chapters and fourteen invited review papers in addition to primary research papers. His research is centered on the origin, evolution and reproductive biology of island plants and on the evolution of tribe Coreopsideae of Asteraceae. He served as President of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the Botanical Society of America. He has received the Asa Gray Award from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the Merit Award (now named Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America) from the Botanical Society.
Patricio López-Sepúlveda is Assistant Professor of Botany at the University of Concepción, Chile. He is a doctor in Natural Resources and postdoctoral studies at the University of Vienna. He is editor of the journal Gayana Botánica and head of the Biology Career of the University of Concepción. His research interests include isla