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The Biodiversity of African Plants

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Monographs, databases and biodiversity conservation
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    Chapter 2 Conspectus of the vascular plants of Madagascar: a taxonomic and conservation electronic database
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    Chapter 3 Computerisation of the East African Herbarium: development of a regional plant information service
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    Chapter 4 Plants of southern Africa database
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    Chapter 5 Uses, chromosome number and distribution of Solanum species in Uganda
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    Chapter 6 The plants of Pehr Forsskål’s Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica
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    Chapter 7 Enumeration of the flowering plants of tropical Africa
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    Chapter 8 Thunberg, Hoffmann and the Phytographische Blätter
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    Chapter 9 Biodiversity of arid islands in tropical Africa: the succulents of inselbergs
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    Chapter 10 Patterns and characteristics of the flora of the Succulent Karoo Biome, southern Africa
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    Chapter 11 Taxonomy and biogeography of the anomalous genus Wellstedia
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    Chapter 12 Diversification in an arid world: the Mesembryanthemaceae
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    Chapter 13 Tubers and bulbs as an adaptive strategy in the Kalahari
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    Chapter 14 New collections of Mesembryanthema in South African grasslands
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    Chapter 15 Centres of plant diversity in Africa
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    Chapter 16 Mapping plant biodiversity on Mount Cameroon
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    Chapter 17 Les Légumineuses Mimosoïdées ombrophiles de basse altitude africaines et malgaches: biodiversité et répartition
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    Chapter 18 Biodiversité morphogénétique, exemples des plantes plagiotropes
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    Chapter 19 Analyse de la biodiversité végétale dans la Forêt des Abeilles, Gabon
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    Chapter 20 Aperçu sur les groupements secondaires à Marantaceae, Zingiberaceae et Costaceae de la Forêt des Abeilles (Gabon)
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    Chapter 21 Utilisation de la méthode du transect en vue de l’étude de la biodiversité dans la Réserve de Faune du Dja (Cameroun)
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    Chapter 22 Structure du peuplement des Ptéridophytes d’une forêt ombrophile à Madagascar: réactions à un stress de nature anthropique
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    Chapter 23 The subcanopy flora in the dynamics of the Kalahari Thornveld
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    Chapter 24 Plant species diversity of West African inselbergs
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    Chapter 25 Biodiversity in three traditional groves in the Guinea savanna, Ghana
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    Chapter 26 Biodiversity of the Maputaland Centre
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    Chapter 27 Les Eriocaulaceae et leurs habitats dans les savanes africaines
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    Chapter 28 Flora and vegetation of Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal
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    Chapter 29 Inventory and conservation of economic plant genetic resources in Kenya rangeland: a case study of Turkana district
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    Chapter 30 The floristic status of grasses of the South Luangwa national park and the Lupande area
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    Chapter 31 Les faciès à Andropogon pseudapricus des groupements post-culturaux et des savanes arbustives du Nord-Bénin: dissemblance floristique et caractères communs
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    Chapter 32 A floristic classification of the indigenous forests of Transkei, South Africa
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    Chapter 33 Conservation status of mopane woodlands in Malawi: a case study of Mua-Tsanya Forest Reserve
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    Chapter 34 Deforestation in southern Côte d’Ivoire: a high-resolution remote sensing approach
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    Chapter 35 Plant biodiversity conservation in Kenya: the plant conservation and propagation unit of the East African Herbarium - a case study
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    Chapter 36 An ecological and ethnobotanical study of wild or spontaneous coffee, Coffea arabica in Ethiopia
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    Chapter 37 Implications of the Convention on Biological Diversity for cooperation in botanical research
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    Chapter 38 Preliminary study of threatened plants of Mozambique
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    Chapter 39 Conservation and in vitro propagation of rare Kenyan Orchidaceae, a common goal for conservation and horticulture
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    Chapter 40 Conservation priorities in the arid and semi-arid lands: the case of the hilltop forests of Kenya
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    Chapter 41 Forest management systems to sustain resource use and biodiversity: examples from the southern Cape, South Africa
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    Chapter 42 How gallery forest turns into savanna: an example from Senegal
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    Chapter 43 Molecular taxonomy of Saintpaulia rupicola and the genus Saintpaulia
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    Chapter 44 Similarity of nickel distribution in leaf tissue of two distantly related hyperaccumulating species
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    Chapter 45 Implications of changes in vegetation in Pandero, Murchison Falls Park, Uganda
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    Chapter 46 The conservation status of the genus Saintpaulia in Kenya
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    Chapter 47 Floristic composition of Gara Muleta and Kundudo mountains, south-eastern Ethiopia: implications for the conservation of biodiversity
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    Chapter 48 Monophyly: a criterion for generic delimitation, with special reference to Leguminosae
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    Chapter 49 In defence of paraphyletic taxa
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    Chapter 50 Generic delimitations in African groups which also have wide distributions outside Africa
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    Chapter 51 Problems with generic delimitation and subdivision in a large genus, Barleria (Acanthaceae)
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    Chapter 52 Generic Delimitation and Relationships in the Tribe Hildebrandtieae (Convolvulaceae)
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    Chapter 53 The Problem of Generic Delimitation when Conflict Exists between Molecular and Morphological Data
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    Chapter 54 Generic Delimitation in the Palms of Madagascar
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    Chapter 55 Les Délimitations Des Genres Chez les Caesalpinioideae Africaines (Detarieae et Amherstieae) (1957–1994)
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    Chapter 56 A New Circumscription of the Genus Dolichos (Leguminosae)
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    Chapter 57 Generic Delimitation of Subfamily Cassinoideae (Celastraceae) in Africa
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    Chapter 58 Leaf Anatomy of the African Genera of Commelinaceae: Anthericopsis and Murdannia
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    Chapter 59 Generic delimitation of Lasiodiscus (Rhamnaceae)
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    Chapter 60 A study on microsporogenesis and ovule morphology in tropical African Anthericaceae and Asphodelaceae
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    Chapter 61 On the position of the genus Pergularia (Asclepiadaceae)
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    Chapter 62 Taxonomic studies of the genus Sansevieria (Dracaenaceae)
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    Chapter 63 Generic concepts in Bidens and Coreopsis (Compositae): an overview
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    Chapter 64 The taxonomy of the genus Fuirena (Cyperaceae) in East Africa
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    Chapter 65 The plant family Apocynaceae in East Africa
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    Chapter 66 Provisional generic delimitation in the Haumaniastrum/Acrocephalus complex (Labiatae)
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    Chapter 67 Leaf anatomy and generic delimitations in South African Amaryllidaceae
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    Chapter 68 Le cadre paléoenvironnemental des refuges forestiers africains: quelques données et hypothèses
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    Chapter 69 Les Rinorea comme indicateurs des grands types forestiers du Cameroun
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    Chapter 70 Changes in forest composition over the last 4000 years in the Ituri basin, Zaire
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    Chapter 71 Geography of African Rubiaceae with reference to glacial rain forest refuges
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    Chapter 72 Patterns of endemism in the woody flora of north-east and east Africa
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    Chapter 73 Begonias and African rain forest refuges: general aspects and recent progress
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    Chapter 74 Saprophytic flowering plants of Mount Cameroon
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    Chapter 75 Caesalpinioideae and the study of forest refuges in central Africa
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    Chapter 76 Rain forest refugia in Liberia
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    Chapter 77 Floral structure and pollination in Pelargonium
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    Chapter 78 The one-to-one species specificity of the Ficus -Agaoninae mutualism: how casual?
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    Chapter 79 Sex expression in Canthium mundianum (Rubiaceae)
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    Chapter 80 Difficulties with cross-pollinating five cowpea lines: technique development
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    Chapter 81 Introduction to the symposium Uses of African plants
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    Chapter 82 African wild plants with rootstocks reported to be eaten raw: the Monocotyledons, part III
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    Chapter 83 Utilization and conservation status of wild food plants in Kenya
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    Chapter 84 Strategies for enhancement of utilization potential of edible woody forest species of south-eastern Nigeria
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    Chapter 85 The economic importance and research needs for Uapaca in Malawi
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    Chapter 86 Diversity of medicinal plants in West African habitats
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    Chapter 87 Misuses and abuses in self-medication with medicinal plants: the case of Erythrophleum in Ghana
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    Chapter 88 An alternative to Eucalyptus: Terminalia sericea
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    Chapter 89 Les plantes antidiarrhéiques chez les Sundi de la sous-préfecture de Kindamba (Congo)
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    Chapter 90 Medicinal uses of plants from Guinea-Bissau
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    Chapter 91 Rwenzori Mountain Forest non-timber products and people
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    Chapter 92 Plantes médicinales utilisées par les Pygmées (Mbute) pour combattre le paludisme dans la zone de Mambasa, Ituri, Zaire
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    Chapter 93 Medicinal plants of the Marachi people of Kenya
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    Chapter 94 Végétation et plantes alimentaires de la région de la Sangha (Nord-Congo)
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    Chapter 95 Etude des effets des plantes molluscicides de la flore naturelle du Burundi sur Biomphalaria pfeifferi , hôte intermédiaire de la bilharziose
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    Chapter 96 L’homme et l’igname au Congo
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    Chapter 97 Medicinal plants used during ante- and post-natal periods and in early infant care in Busoga
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    Chapter 98 Confusion de deux taxons spécifiques ou subspécifiques au sein du genre Borassus en Afrique de l’Ouest
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    Chapter 99 Rheophytes of Ghana
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    Chapter 100 Progress of the Cape Verde Flora
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    Chapter 101 Biodiversity in the flora of Egypt
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    Chapter 102 Some aspects of the biodiversity of the weed flora in the farmlands of Egypt
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    Chapter 103 Orchidaceae du district phytogéographique du Haut-Katanga (Zaïre): biodiversité et endémisme
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    Chapter 104 Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea
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    Chapter 105 Floristics of Transkei sandstone forests (South Africa)
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    Chapter 106 Seed and seedling morphology of Entada ,a study of Zambian species
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    Chapter 107 Développements récents de l’Herbier de Dakar
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    Chapter 108 Tree-climbing on a free rope
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Title
The Biodiversity of African Plants
Published by
Springer Netherlands, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-0285-5
ISBNs
978-9-40-106613-6, 978-9-40-090285-5
Editors

Maesen, L. J. G., Burgt, X. M., Medenbach de Rooy, J. M.

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Country Count As %
Germany 2 3%
Belgium 1 1%
Unknown 75 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 23%
Student > Master 17 22%
Researcher 8 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Student > Bachelor 3 4%
Other 10 13%
Unknown 16 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 29%
Environmental Science 20 26%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 16 21%