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Subtropical Mountain Forests of Las Yungas: Vegetation and Bioclimate

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The relationship between climate and plants was noted as long ago as the third century BC by Theophrastus (Hort 1916), who highlighted the importance of climate in plant distribution through direct and experimental observation. The ideas of this thinker were developed no further until the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century—aided by the invention of the thermometer and the barometer in the seventeenth century—in the works of de Willdenow (1792), von Humboldt (1807), Wahlenberg (1811) and Grisebach (1838), when it became evident that climate was the main factor driving the distribution of plants and the communities they form, giving rise to a new science called Bioclimatology.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina

    Gabriela S. Entrocassi

  2. Departamento de Farmacología, Farmacognosia y Botánica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

    Rosario G. Gavilán & Daniel Sánchez-Mata

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Entrocassi, G.S., Gavilán, R.G., Sánchez-Mata, D. (2020). Bioclimatology. In: Subtropical Mountain Forests of Las Yungas: Vegetation and Bioclimate. Geobotany Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25521-3_3

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