Biodiversity of Pantepui: The Pristine "Lost World" of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge on the biota, origin, and evolution of the Pantepui biogeographical province. It synthesizes historical information and recent discoveries, covering the main biogeographic patterns, evolutionary trends, and conservational efforts.
Written by international experts on the biodiversity of this pristine land, this book explores the environmental and biogeographical factors, and what makes Pantepui a unique natural laboratory to study the origin and evolution of neotropical biodiversity using only natural drivers. It discusses the organisms living in this tepui, including vascular plants, invertebrates, birds, reptiles, and mammals. The latter portion of the book delves into the effects of global warming on Pantepui, and current conservational efforts to combat these threats.
Biodiversity of Pantepui is an important resource for researchers, ecologists, and conservationists who want to understand the biodiversity and history of this pristine land, and how to help conserve and protect Pantepui from environmental and human damages.
Addresses the biodiversity history and efforts of the Pantepui province
Offers a climactic and ecological history of the region since the Holocene epoch
Discusses plant phylogeography, evolution, elevational plant diversity patterns
Led by a team of editors whose expertise includes Pantepui paleoecology, neotropics, the Venezuelan Guiana and the Guiana Shield