A new index

I’ve put together an index of the plant families featured so far on A Neotropical Savanna. It’s more than a simple index, though. It is annotated with description, identification features, and examples for each family. I put this together for my own use, but I’m drawing it to your attention in case you may find some value in it.

The main resources I used for the descriptions are wikipedia and a remarkable web site of the flora and fauna of the West Indies, which is called “Father Sanchez’s Web Site of West Indian Natural History” and which uses the domain name kingsnake.com.

The main resource I used for brief identification features was a book by Alwyn Gentry which is cited on the references page of this site.

The examples are given from my experience and this blog.

If you choose to take a look at the index and notice any errors, do leave a comment to let me know. I’d greatly appreciate it.

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A savanna is…

"...a natural and stable ecosystem occuring under a tropical climate having a relatively continuous layer of xeromorphic grasses and sedges, and often with a discontinuous layer of low trees and shrubs." Cited by Kricher, J., 1997. A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics (2nd ed - 1999), Princeton University Press, 451 pp.

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