Guide to Tendrillate Climbers of Costa Rican Mountains

by Alexander Krings and Richard R. Braham

Climbers, such as lianas and vines, are important constituents of tropical forests and perhaps the single most important physiognomic characteristic differentiating tropical from temperate forests, occurring on nearly 50% of forest trees in Central and South America. Despite their widespread nutritional and medicinal use, lianas remain poorly understood ecologically. Tendrillate Climbers offers comprehensive coverage of all of the tendrillate lianas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813807581
• ISBN13: 9780813807584
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 10.3"