Abstract
Jonathan Silvertown here explores astonishing diversity of plant life in regions as spectacular as verdant climes of Japan, lush grounds of Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, shallow wetlands and teeming freshwaters of Florida, tropical rainforests of southeast Mexico, and Canary Islands archipelago, whose evolutionary novelties - and exotic plant life - have earned it sobriquet the Galapagos of botany. Along way, Silvertown looks closely at evolution of plant diversity in these locales and explains why such variety persists in light of ecological patterns and evolutionary processes. In novel and useful ways, he also investigates current state of plant diversity on planet to show ever-challenging threats posed by invasive species and humans.This paperback edition will include an entirely new chapter on astonishing diversity of plant life in Western Cape of South Africa that focuses on fynbos, a vegetation endemic to Cape. Bringing secret life of plants into more colorful and vivid focus than ever before, Demons in Eden is an empathic and impassioned exploration of modern plant ecology that unlocks evolutionary mysteries of natural world.
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