Vegetation of the Canary Islands

1. Introduction.- 2. Geographic framework.- 3. Climate. 3.1. Anticyclonic Weather.- 3.2. Saharan Weather.- 3.3. Disturbed Weather.- 4. Bioclimate.- 4.1. Bioclimatic Belts.- 4.2. Bioclimatic Belts in the Canary Islands.- 4.3. Bioclimographs.- 5. Biogeography.- 5.1. Colonization.- 5.2. Biogeographic Classification.- 6. Other Floristic Considerations.- 6.1. Non-Vascular Flora.- 6.2. Vascular Flora.- 7. Vegetation of the Canary Islands.- 7.1. An Overview.- 7.2. Current Vegetation.- 7.3. Potential Natural Vegetation.- 7.4. Characteristic Species of the Most Representative Classes of the Climatophilous Vegetation.- 8. Change in the Natural Landscape Through Human Influence.- 8.1. Uses and Degradation of the Plant Cover by the Aboriginal Population.- 8.2. The Intense Landscape Disturbance and Transformation after the Conquest.- 8.3. Current Climate Change.- 9. Conservation Status of Flora and Vegetation.- 9.1. Protection of Natural Reserves.- 9.2. Botanical Gardens, Seed and Germoplasm Banks and Nurseries.- 9.3. Invasive Plants.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Appendix 3.- Appendix 4.- Index.