Introduction Tod F. Stuessy, Daniel J. Crawford, Patricio López-Sepúlveda, Carlos M. Baeza and Eduardo Ruiz; Part I. Historical Aspects: 1. History of the islands Tod F. Stuessy; 2. Botanists in the islands Tod F. Stuessy and Clodomiro Marticorena; Part II. The Physical Setting: 3. Geology and soils Walter A. Sontag, Jr and Tod F. Stuessy; 4. Climate and weather Walter A. Sontag, Jr and Tod F. Stuessy; Part III. The Green Landscape: 5. Taxonomic inventory Tod F. Stuessy, Roberto Rodríguez, Carlos M. Baeza and Patricio López-Sepúlveda; 6. Vegetation Josef Greimler, Patricio López-Sepúlveda and Karl Reiter; Part IV. Plant Conservation: 7. Impacts on the vegetation Tod F. Stuessy, Clodomiro Marticorena, Ulf Swenson, Josef Greimler and Patricio López-Sepúlveda; 8. Invasive species Josef Greimler, Tod F. Stuessy, Ulf Swenson, Patricio López-Sepúlveda and Carlos M. Baeza; 9. Conservation of native and endemic species Tod F. Stuessy, Carlos M. Baeza, Patricio López-Sepúlveda, Roberto Rodríguez and Ulf Swenson; Part V. Patterns of Character Diversity: 10. Flavonoid compounds: taxonomic and phylogenetic implications Daniel J. Crawford, Mario Silva O., Patricia Pacheco and Hugo Valdebenito; 11. Chromosome numbers Tod F. Stuessy and Carlos M. Baeza; 12. Reproductive biology Gregory J. Anderson and Gabriel Bernardello; Part VI. Evolutionary Processes: 13. Patterns of phylogeny Tod F. Stuessy, Daniel J. Crawford and Eduardo Ruiz; 14. Genetic diversity and divergence Daniel J. Crawford, Patricio López-Sepúlveda, Koji Takayama and Eduardo Ruiz; 15. Speciation Daniel J. Crawford, Tod F. Stuessy, Koji Takayama, Patricio López-Sepúlveda, Gregory J. Anderson and Gabriel Bernardello; Part VII. Biogeography: 16. Plant origins and dispersal Gabriel Bernardello and Gregory J. Anderson; 17. Modeling species diversity Walter A. Sontag, Jr, Tod F. Stuessy and Ulf Swenson; Conclusions Tod F. Stuessy, Daniel J. Crawford, Carlos M. Baeza, Patricio López-Sepúlveda, Josef Greimler, Eduardo Ruiz, Koji Takayama, Gregory J. Anderson, Gabriel Bernardello and Ulf Swenson.
