Brief History of the Gymnosperms: Classification, Biodiversity, Phytogeography and Ecology (Strelitzia 20) de Anderson, John M; Anderson, Heidi, M and Cleal, Chris J - 2007

Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute, 2007. Illustrated with line drawings and coloured charts, tall quarto, pp x, 280. lower and upper corners a little bruised, a large name on the title page, otherwise clean and sound internally, paperback, covers slightly worn. Extremely scarce. [This book offers a global synthesis of gymnosperm families, fossil and extant, providing a new and distinctive perspective on the macroevolutionary biodiversity trends within this group through their 375 million-year history. The stratigraphic ranges of the 84 gymnosperm families are plotted according to their first and last appearances in the fossil record. Also included is a systematic coverage of floral kingdoms, biodiversity patterns, insect associations and other fields, traced period by period from the Devonian to Quaternary.]. First Edition. Paperback. Good.