The hazardous future of island floras

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511844270.022

21 - The hazardous future of island floras

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011

Vernon H. Heywood

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David Bramwell and

Juli Caujapé-Castells

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Vernon H. Heywood: Affiliation:
University of Reading
David Bramwell: Affiliation:
Jardín Botánico Canario 'Viera y Clavijo' - Unidad Asociada CSIC
Juli Caujapé-Castells: Affiliation:
Jardín Botánico Canario 'Viera y Clavijo' - Unidad Asociada CSIC

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Introduction: the changed context

When I contributed the final chapter to Plants and Islands (Bramwell, 1979), my conclusions about the future of island organisms and communities were described by the editor as ‘rightly pessimistic’. Now 30 years later, it is perhaps even more difficult to be optimistic about their future. This is despite the fact that the intervening years have seen the coming into force of international treaties and agreements such as CITES, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Climate Convention, the Migratory Species Convention, the Leipzig Report and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, as well as the publication of a series of major reports and assessments such as the Agenda 21, the Global Biodiversity Assessment and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. The period has also witnessed major advances in our understanding of island floras, their nature, origin, evolution, biogeography, the threats to them and conservation responses, as the preceding chapters in this volume will testify.

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Information: The Biology of Island Floras , pp. 488 - 510

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