Overview
- No such type of book on this area has ever been produced
- An integrative book for the area covered, with sufficient detail for every mountain centre separately
- Written by recognized specialists for each of the centres
- Pays attention to the particularities and conservation status of these highly diverse mountain centres
- Integrates knowledge that up to now is locally published in various languages
- Presents a clear overview of the entire huge area in English, with diagrams, maps and pictures
Part of the book series: Plant and Vegetation (PAVE, volume 17)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book presents an overview study about plant biogeography and vegetation of the high mountains of Central and South-West Asia, by a group of specialists familiar with its area and plant growth and ecology. This book discusses its ecological and evolutionary drivers and also its conservation priorities.
Central and South-West Asia is one of the most diverse areas in the northern hemisphere and several biodiversity hotspots are concentrated in this region. Most of the biodiversity hotspots are associated with high mountain ranges of the region. Moreover, these mountains have been immigration corridors for the Central Asian flora to reach Euro-Siberian and Mediterranean regions. Despite its importance, there is no overview publication to present the plant biogeography and vegetation of these mountains and most of the publications are local or rather imprecise
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Jalil Noroozi was born in 1979 in a mountainous village in the NW Iran (Eshlagh, Miyaneh). He studied at the University of Tabriz (BMc of Plant Biology; 2002), the University of Tehran (MSc of Plant Ecology and Systematic; 2005) and the University of Vienna (Ph.D. of Plant Ecology; 2013). He worked as a researcher at the Natural History Museum of Vienna for two years and then got a Post-Doc position at the University of Vienna. He has always focused his research studies on the plant diversity, biogeography, and vegetation of alpine habitats of high mountains of Iranian Plateau since 2003.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Biogeography and Vegetation of High Mountains of Central and South-West Asia
Editors: Jalil Noroozi
Series Title: Plant and Vegetation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45212-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45211-7Published: 15 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45214-8Published: 15 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45212-4Published: 14 July 2020
Series ISSN: 1875-1318
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1326
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 360
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 96 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Ecology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Biodiversity, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography