InhaltsangabePart I. The Meaning of Endemism 1. The Increasing Importance of Endemism: Responsibility, the Media and Education Carsten Hobohm & Caroline M. Tucker 1.1. What is endemism? 1.2. The Increasing Importance of Endemism in the Media 1.3. Endemism, Responsibility and Education 2. How to Quantify Endemism Carsten Hobohm & Caroline M. Tucker 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Number of Individuals (N) 2.3. Number of Taxa (E) 2.4. Proportion of Endemics (E/S) 2.5. Bykow`s Index of Endemism (BI) 2.6. Density, Endemic Species Diversity in Space (E/A) 2.7. Endemics-Area-Relationships (EARs) 2.8. RangeSize Rarity (RSR) and weighted endemism (WE, CWE) 2.9. Parsimony Analysis of Endemism (PAE) 2.10. Phylogentic Measures of Endemism (PE) 2.11. Habitat Preferences (E/H) 2.12. Perception of Endemics Part II. Endemic Vascular Plants over Time 3. Factors that Create and Increase Endemism Ines Bruchmann & Carsten Hobohm 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Neo and Paleoendemism 3.3. Constancy and Change 3.4. Age of the Geological Substrate and Landscape 3.5. Dispersal, Isolation, Hard and Soft Boundaries 3.6. Growth of Phylogenetic Trees and Evolutionary Speed 4. Factors that Threaten and Reduce Endemism Ines Bruchmann & Carsten Hobohm 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Extinctions in the Past and Recent Threats 4.3. Disturbance of Habitats 4.4. Biological Resource Use 4.5. Invasive and Other Problematic Species 4.6. Climate Change 4.7. Problems of Reproduction 4.8. Biotic Crisis and Conservation of Endemic Vascular Plants Part III. Endemic Vascular Plants in Space 5. Biogeography of Endemic Vascular Plants - Overview Carsten Hobohm, Ines Bruchmann, Monika Janisová, Jan Jansen & Uwe Deppe 5.1. Latitudinal, Longitudinal, Radial and Altitudinal Gradients 5.2. Oceanic Islands, Continental Islands and Mainland Regions 5.3. Endemism in Relation to Habitat 6. Endemism on Islands - Case Studies 6.1. Juan Fernández Islands Andres Moreira-Muñoz & Sergio Elórtegui 6.2. Madeira Islands Miguel de Sequeira & Carsten Hobohm 6.3. Corsica, Mediterranean Carsten Hobohm 6.4. Madagascar Carsten Hobohm 6.5. Comparison of endemism and habitat affinities on Juan Fernández Islands, Madeira Archipelago, Tenerife and Corsica Carsten Hobohm 7. Endemism in Mainland Regions - Case Studies 7.1. Endemism in an Ecotone: from Chaparral to Desert in Baja California, Mexico Sula E. Vanderplank 7.2. Ecuador Carsten Hobohm 7.3. Central Chile Ecoregion Andrés Moreira-Muñoz 7.4. Europe`s Mainland Carsten Hobohm 7.5. Turkey Gerhard Pils 7.6. High Mountain Regions of Iran Jalil Noroozi 7.7. The Role of Edaphic Substrate Versus Altitudinal Climate in Endemic Plant Distribution Patterns in the Cape Midlands Escarpment, Eastern Cape, South Africa V. Ralph Clark & Nigel P. Barker 7.8. Taxonomic Composition and Spatial Pattern of Endemic Seed Plant Species in Southwest China Wenjing Yang, Jihong Huang & Keping Ma 7.9. Habitats of Tertiary Relict Trees in China Cindy Q. Tang Part IV. Endemism in Vascular Plants - Synthesis Ines Bruchmann, Monika Janisová, Cindy Q. Tang, Caroline M. Tucker, Sula Vanderplank, Nigel P. Barker, V. Ralph Clark, Uwe Deppe, Sergio Elórtegui, Carsten Hobohm, Jihong Huang, Jan Jansen, Keping Ma, Andres Moreira-Muñoz, Masahiko Ohsawa, Jalil Noroozi, Gerhard Pils, Miguel de Sequeira, Marinus J.A. Werger, Wenjing Yang & Yongchuan Yang Appendix Glossary

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