Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/9vAaTr Plant Diversity of an Andean Cloud Forest Inventory of the Vascular Flora of Maquipucuna, Ecuador By: Grady L. Webster; Robert Rhode Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520098305, 0520098307 eText ISBN: 9780520915930, 0520915933 Edition: 1st Pages: 228 Copyright year: 2002 Format: PDF Available from $ 42.00 USD SKU 9780520915930 Based on work spanning a decade, this study of the Maquipucuna area on the western slopes of the Andes discusses the climate, vegetation, ecological relationships, and flora, and emphasizes the importance of the Maquipucuna area as a biological reserve. In addition to the checklist of the flora, which enumerates 1,650 species (including 228 species of pteridophytes and over 200 species of orchids), appendices give information on floristic composition of communities, distribution of epiphytes, and elevational ranges of families and genera. The illustrations include a map, landscapes, and characteristic species.
