The Canary Museum hosts this Friday, November 3, at 20:00 h., the presentation of the book La laurisilva: Canarias, Madeira and Azores, which will be in charge of the director of the Canary Botanical Garden "Viera y Clavijo"
, Juli Caujapé-Castells.The book, published by Macaronesia Editorial, is a collective work coordinated by José María Fernández-Palacios, professor of Ecology , and in it participates a dozen researchers from the main Macaronic universities (La Laguna, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Madeira and Azores) and the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville. The result is a publication based on the most current knowledge and literature on laurisilva, an exceptional forest formation that managed to survive the great changes of the glacial eras.
It is a very careful book, with an exquisite design, written in an informative style, aimed at teachers, students and nature lovers in general, consisting of more than 400 magnificently illustrated pages, including more than 200 high quality photographs, maps, graphs, tables, tree tokens that are part of this forest and a key to the determination of them. A compendium that fills the gap in the dissemination literature regarding our most famous ecosystem, which is now a real ecological treasure.