THE GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS
CONTENTS PART I GEOBOTANICAL SCENARIO THE EXTRAVAGANT PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CHILE TECTONICS AND PHYSIOGRAPHY MORPHOSTRUCTURAL MACROZONES PAST CLIMATE AND VEGETATION THE PALAEOZOIC (542–251 MYA) THE MESOZOIC (251–65 5 MYA) THE CENOZOIC (65 5 MYA ONWARDS) CURRENT CLIMATE AND VEGETATION BIOCLIMATIC ZONES VEGETATION FORMATIONS REFERENCES GETTING GEOBOTANICAL KNOWLEDGE ROMANCING THE SOUTH: THE DISCOVERY OF A VIRGIN WORLD CLASSI?CATION AND PHYLOGENY OF THE CHILEAN VASCULAR FLORA RICH FAMILIES AND GENERA ENDEMIC FAMILIES PHYLOGENETIC GROUPS PART II CHOROLOGY OF CHILEAN PLANTS GEOGRAPHICAL RELATIONS OF THE CHILEAN FLORA FLORISTIC ELEMENTS PANTROPICAL FLORISTIC ELEMENT AUSTRALASIATIC FLORISTIC ELEMENT NEOTROPICAL (AMERICAN) FLORISTIC ELEMENT ANTITROPICAL FLORISTIC ELEMENT SOUTH-TEMPERATE FLORISTIC ELEMENT ENDEMIC FLORISTIC ELEMENT COSMOPOLITAN FLORISTIC ELEMENT TO BE OR NOT TO BE DISJUNCT? PACI?C-ATLANTIC DISJUNCTIONS ANTITROPICAL (PACI?C) DISJUNCTIONS IN THE SEARCH FOR CENTRES OF ORIGIN: DISPERSAL V/S VICARIANCE IN THE CHILEAN FLORA REVITALIZING LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL RELATIVISING LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGIONALIZATION THE CHILEAN PLANTS IN THE GLOBAL CONCERT THE AUSTRAL V/S THE NEOTROPICAL FLORISTIC REALM FLORISTIC ELEMENTS IN THE LATITUDINAL PRO?LE SIMILARITY ALONG THE LATITUDINAL GRADIENT REGIONS AND PROVINCES ENDEMISM AS THE BASE FOR REGIONALIZATION PART III ISLANDS BIOGEOGRAPHY PACI?C OFFSHORE CHILE RAPA NUI ISLAS DESVENTURADAS JUAN FERNÁNDEZ ARCHIPELAGO THE UNIQUE PLANT WORLD OF JUAN FERNÁNDEZ FLORISTIC SIMILARITY OF JUAN FERNÁNDEZ ORIGINS OF THE FERNANDEZIAN FLORA CONSERVATION OF JUAN FERNÁNDEZ PLANTS ISLANDS ON THE CONTINENT: CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY IN CHANGING ECOSYSTEMS FRAGMENTATION V/S CONSERVATION ON CHILEAN LANDSCAPES GLOBAL CHANGE BIOGEOGRAPHY: A SCIENCE OF UNCERTAINTIES AND POSSIBILITIES PART IV CASE STUDIES ON SELECTED FAMILIES CACTACEAE, A WEIRD FAMILY AND POSTMODERN EVOLUTION CACTI CLASSI?CATION CHILEAN REPRESENTATIVES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION CACTI DISTRIBUTION IN CHILE AREAS OF ENDEMISM NOTES ON CACTI CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHIC INSIGHTS: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ORIGINS CACTUS POSTMODERN EVOLUTION ASTERACEAE, CHILE’S RICHEST FAMILY CLASSI?CATION OF CHILEAN ASTERACEAE FLORISTIC ELEMENTS OF CHILEAN ASTERACEAE BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGIONALIZATION OF THE CHILEAN ASTERACEAE ASTERACEAE EVOLUTIONARY BIOGEOGRAPHY ORIGIN AND DISPERSAL ROUTES DISPERSAL CAPACITIES CONSERVATION V/S INVASIONS INVADING BIOGEOGRAPHY NOTHOFAGUS, KEY GENUS IN PLANT GEOGRAPHY TAXONOMY AND PHYLOGENY DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION SPECIATION V/S EXTINCTION VICARIANCE V/S DISPERSAL AND CENTRES OF ORIGIN NOTHOFAGUS AND ASSOCIATED TAXA SYNTHESIS AND OUTLOOK PART V WHERE TO FROM HERE? PROJECTIONS OF CHILEAN PLANT GEOGRAPHY ALL THE POSSIBLE WORLDS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY THE FRAGMENTED MAP OF MODERN BIOGEOGRAPHY POSTMODERN BIOGEOGRAPHY: DECONSTRUCTING THE MAP SLOPPY BIOGEOGRAPHY V/S HARSH GEOLOGY? JUST SOME POSSIBLE WORLDS CONNECTIONS OVER LAND BRIDGES AND WHAT ABOUT A CLOSER PACI?C BASIN? THREE MODELS OF GONDWANA FRAGMENTATION + ONE DISPERSAL THE “NEW BIOGEOGRAPHY” CODA: THE GEOGRAPHICAL NATURE OF BIOGEOGRAPHY EPILOGUE: THE JUAN FERNÁNDEZ ISLANDS AND THE LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL OF UTOPIA