front cover of Field Guide to the Introduced Flora of South Georgia
Field Guide to the Introduced Flora of South Georgia
Rebecca Upson, Bradley Myer, Kelvin Floyd, Jennifer Lee, and Colin Clubbe
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2017
In the late eighteenth century, the first sealing ships from England arrived in South Georgia. With them came a host of invasive plants, which set to work upending the island ecosystem. Today, forty-one non-native plant species are established in the region and, even a century later, they continue to threaten the native species and habitats of South Georgia.
This is the first field guide to comprehensively cover these species, providing full-color photographs, distribution maps, and species descriptions, plus keys to the grasses and sedges of the area. This guide is accessible even to non-botanists and also provides an opportunity for visitors to be part of a citizen science program contributing sightings and improving our knowledge of the introduced flora of South Georgia.
[more]

front cover of Field Guide to the Plants of the Falkland Islands
Field Guide to the Plants of the Falkland Islands
Thomas Heller, Rebecca Upson, and Richard Lewis
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2018
Field Guide to the Plants of the Falkland Islands is the output from a collaboration between scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Falklands Conservation, who have been working together for many years. With recent additions to the flora, there are now 181 vascular plant species recorded as native to the Islands, including one natural hybrid, as well as 14 vascular plant species that are endemic to the Falklands and therefore found nowhere else. This new comprehensive field guide covers over 300 species, including both native and non-native, from 14 broad habitat types.
[more]


Send via email Share on Facebook Share on Twitter