David Bramwell is Director of the Jardín Botánico Canario 'Viera y Clavijo'- Unidad Asociada CSIC. His current research interests include the monitoring and mapping of wild populations of threatened species, the preparation of a Flora of the Macaronesia, mapping species decline worldwide, molecular studies of genetic diversity in small populations and the effects of climate change on island plants. Juli Caujapé-Castells is Head of the Department of Molecular Biodiversity and DNA bank at the Jardín Botánico Canario 'Viera y Clavijo'- Unidad Asociada CSIC. His research uses molecular data to investigate problems related to the origins, taxonomic identification, microevolution and conservation of terrestrial vascular plants endemic to, or occurring in, Macaronesia.
This volume represents a reasonable balance of up-to-date general reviews and interesting case studies on island floras. We must congratulate the editors and authors. The Biology of Island Floraswill be of great value to many botanists, ecologists, and biogeographers. Moreover, it also has much to offer to a broader audience of conservation biologists and managers of protected areas on islands. Marcel Rejmanek, University of California, Davis for Plant Science Bulletin