Many woody plants can resprout and many ecosystems are dominated by resprouters. They
persist in situ through disturbance events such as fire, flooding or wind storms. However, the …

T he five mediterranean-climate regions of the world (Fig. 1, Box 1) occupy less than 5% of
the Earth's surface yet harbour about 48250 known vascular plant species (Table l), almost …

Exploring the role of fire in each of the five Mediterranean-type climate ecosystems, this
book offers a unique view of the evolution of fire-adapted traits and the role of fire in sha** …

Large regions of the world are regularly burnt either deliberately or naturally. However,
despite the widespread occurrence of such fire-prone ecosystems, and considerable body of …

Mediterranean-type ecosystems (MTEs) are located today in southwestern Australia, the
Cape Region of South Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, California, and central Chile. These …

Disturbance is a dominant factor in many ecosystems, and the disturbance regime is likely to
change over the next decades in response to land‐use changes and global warming. We …

There is a voluminous literature on pollination and dispersal, very little of which deals with
the consequences of reproductive failure and its most extreme consequence: extinction. The …

The Fynbos Biome, due to its floristic, evolutionary and ecological peculiarities and
conservation appeal, has experienced decades of intensive and dedicated botanical …

The flora of the south-western tip of southern Africa, the Cape flora, with some 9000 species
in an area of 90000 km2 is much more speciose than can be expected from its area or …

Woody plants may be killed by severe disturbance or resprout from vegetative tissue.
Sprouters can persist at a site through several generations of nonsprouters. Differences in …