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Biogeography of Endemic Vascular Plants – Overview

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Endemism in Vascular Plants

Part of the book series: Plant and Vegetation ((PAVE,volume 9))

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Endemics are not incidentally or uniformly distributed around the world. We describe and analyse general distribution patterns of endemic vascular plants in different climate zones, ecoregions, and altitudes. We distinguish endemism of vascular plants related to mainland, continental and oceanic islands and different physiognomic habitat types.

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