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Plant Diversity and Ecology in the Chihuahuan Desert

Emphasis on the Cuatro Cienegas Basin. Cuatro Cienegas Basin: An Endangered Hyperdiverse Oasis

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland
Published: 19th Jul 2020
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 21mm
Weight: 659g
ISBN-10: 3030449629
ISBN-13: 9783030449629
Barcode No: 9783030449629
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Synopsis
Environmental and specific diversity in the Chihuahuan desert in general, and in the Cuatro Cienegas Basin in particular, has long been recognized as outstanding. This book provides a global ecological overview, together with in-depth studies of specific processes. The Chihuahuan desert is the warmest in North America, and has a complex geologic, climatic and biogeographical history, which affects today's distribution of vegetation and plants and generates complex phylogeographic patterns. The high number of endemic species reflects this complex set of traits. The modern distribution of environments, including aquatic and subaquatic systems, riparian environments, gypsum dunes and gypsum-rich soils, low levels of phosphorous and organic matter, and high salinity combined with an extreme climate call for a range of adaptations. Plants are distributed in a patchy pattern based on punctual variations, and many of them respond to different resources and conditions with considerable morphological plasticity. In terms of physiological, morphological and ecological variability, cacti were identified as the most important group in specific environments like bajadas, characterized by high diversity values, while gypsophytes and gypsovagues of different phylogenies, including species with restricted distribution and endemics.

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