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The Botany of Mangroves
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Part I. General Account: 1. Historical prelude; 2. Ecology; 3. Floristics; 4. Biogeography; 5. Shoots and leaf systems; 6. Structural biology; 7. Root systems; 8. Water relations and salt balance; 9. Flowering; 10. Seedlings and seeds; 11. Mangroves and people; Part II. Detailed Description of Families: Acanthaceae; Anacardiaceae; Apocynaceae; Arecaceae (Palmae); Asteraceae (Compositae); Avicenniaceae (Acanthaceae); Bataceae (Batidaceae); Bignoniaceae; Bombacaceae (Malvaceae: Bombacoideae); Celastraceae; Clusiaceae (Calophyllaceae); Combretaceae; Ebenaceae; Euphorbiaceae; Fabaceae (Leguminosae); Flacourtiaceae; Goodeniaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Malvaceae (Malvoideae); Melastomataceae; Meliaceae; Myristicaceae; Pellicieraceae; Plumbaginaceae; Primulaceae (Myrsinaceae: Myrsinoideae); Pteridaceae; Rhizophoraceae; Rubiaceae; Rutaceae; Sapindaceae; Sapotaceae; Sonneratiaceae (Lythraceae); Sterculiaceae (Malvaceae: Sterculioideae); Tiliaceae (Malvaceae: Brownlowioideae).

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A new edition of a key text on ecologically and economically vital intertidal tropical plant communities.

About the Author

P. Barry Tomlinson is Professor Emeritus of Botany at Harvard University, Massachusetts; Crum Professor of Tropical Botany at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii; and Research Associate of the Montgomery Botanical Center, Coral Gables, Florida. He is a leading scholar on the botany of tropical plants, and has published widely on plant anatomy and morphology across a diverse range of communities and species, including palms, aborescent monocotyledons, seagrasses, gymnosperms and mangroves.

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'When P. B. Tomlinson first wrote his botanical account of mangroves three decades ago, these much-maligned trees were largely unknown as the places of wonder and value that many have come to appreciate today. His words have truly placed mangroves in a much better light - better understood and better valued. This new edition, with its cogent updates on mangrove plants and their associates, along with informative colourful plates, is once again needed to inspire and motivate a new generation of devotees. Mangrove shorelines are threatened by the current double dilemma of global climate change coupled with increasing human demands and direct pressures. Natural ecosystems like mangroves are in serious retreat and decline. With this second edition of The Botany of Mangroves, we have a point of reference, and an opportunity to revisit the all-encompassing view seen from the ample shoulders of P. B. Tomlinson.' Norman C. Duke, Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University, Townsville

Review of the previous edition: 'This book should be required reading for any serious student of mangroves.' Ariel E. Lugo, Ecology

Review of the previous edition: '… a precise treatment of mangrove botany …' Howard J. Teas, Economic Botany

Review of the previous edition: '… of considerable value to students and professionals alike. I can warmly recommend it.' C. J. Humphries, Oryx

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