Environmental history of oceanic islands : natural and human impacts on the vegetation of the Juan Fernández (Robinson Crusoe) archipelago / by Tod F. Stuessy.
The Juan Fernández Archipelago is located in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile at 33° S latitude. Robinson Crusoe Island is 667 km from the continent and approximately four million years old; Alejandro Selkirk Island is an additional 181 km west and only one million years old. The natural impacts of s...
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Part I. The Archipelago
- Chapter 2. The importance of the islands
- Part II. Modern flora and vegetation
- Chapter 3. Native and endemic flora
- Chapter 4. Introduced species
- Chapter 5. Vegetational patterns
- PART III. Three historial documentation of human activities
- Chapter 6. Discovery and early exploration (1574-1749)
- Chapter 7. Colonial period (1750-1819)
- Chapter 8. Early botanical period (1820-1875)
- Chapter 9. Floristic period (1876-1906)
- Chapter 10. Skottsberg (1907-1917)
- Chapter 11. Touristic period (1918-1959)
- Chapter 12. Modern period (1960-present)
- Part IV. Summaries of impacts on vegetation
- Chapter 13. Natural factors
- Chapter 14. Human influences
- Part V. Conservation
- Chapter 15. Existing conservation efforts
- Chapter 16. Recommendations for the future
- Index.