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