In spite of international agreements at the political level not
much has changed since the late 1980s in terms of reducing the
speed of destruction of original tropical environments.
However, since the publication of the first edition ten years
ago, international research efforts in physiological ecology of
plants in the tropics has increased enormously in quantity and
quality. In some fields advances were more substantial than in
others. New approaches came up in remote sensing and at the other
end of the scope in some areas molecular biology was particularly
developed regarding ecological performance of tropical plants, e.g.
in understanding the adaptation of resurrection plants to the
extreme habitat of inselbergs.
The wealth of new information made it necessary to break large
chapters down into smaller ones. Tropical forests which occupy
about half of the entire volume of the book were now arranged in 5
chapters covering structure and function under the influence of
environmental cues and including epiphytes and mangroves as part of
the tropical forest complex. Savannas were now treated in two
chapters. Coastal salinas have been combined with a new section on
the Brazilian restingas in a chapter on coastal sand plains.
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