Campbell, Mason (2017) Book review of "Plant Biodiversity: monitoring, assessment and conservation" by A. Ansari, S. Gill, Z. Abbas and M. Naeem (eds.), Wallingford, UK, Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-78064-694-7. Biological Conservation, 212 (Part A). pp. 383-384.

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[Extract] The study of plants constitutes a major area of research in biology. Analogously, at 30 chapters and 628 pages Ansari et al.'s "Plant Biodiversity: Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation" is a weighty tome covering an eclectic array of papers on plant biodiversity. Much of this information is presented as case studies from geographical regions hitherto minimally examined. The case studies are detailed which makes the volume a useful reference.

The book is organized into eight parts. Part I is focused on plant biodiversity patterns across larger spatial or temporal scales. The diversity of chapter topics in Part I is typical of other parts of the book. Topics covered include mechanisms to increase the utility of a modern botanic garden using the Lisbon botanical garden as a case study, diversification of temperate region fruit crops in India, a summary of the 1314 Indian species of Asteraceae and their distribution, and mechanisms of plant diversity maintenance in tropical closed-canopy forests. This last chapter summarizes 51 studies on four major theories of diversity drivers in tropical forests.

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