Professor Fernández-Palacios of the University of La Laguna is coordinating a new volume on thermophilic forests.

The professor in the Ecology department at the University of La Laguna José María Fernández-Palacios He is the coordinator of “Thermophilic Forests: Canary Islands, Madeira, and Cape Verde,” the second volume in a trilogy of books about the Canary Islands' forests, published by Editorial Macaronesia. It is now available in bookstores and will be publicly presented next Friday, September 27, at 8:00 p.m. at the ONCE headquarters on San Sebastián Street in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

This is a book written in a popular style, meticulously edited and designed, aimed at both environmental professionals and nature lovers of the Atlantic archipelagos in general. Like its predecessor, published seven years ago and focused on the laurel forest, this book features contributions from a large group of specialists, particularly from the University of La Laguna: in addition to Fernández-Palacios himself, José Ramón Arévalo, Álvaro Castilla Beltrán, Lea de Nascimento, Enrique Fernández-Palacios, Rüdiger Otto y Natalia Sierra, in addition to experts from external entities such as Rubén Barone, María Cristina Duarte, Agustín Narnajo Cigala, Sandra Nogué and María M. Romeiras.

«"Thermophilic forests. Canary Islands, Madeira and Cape Verde" compiles all existing knowledge regarding the thermophilic communities of Macaronesia, located, with different versions, in the archipelagos of the Canary Islands, Madeira and Cape Verde.

The text includes how the concept of thermophilic forests emerged throughout the history of research in Macaronesia, the history of the Mediterranean climate and biome, the origin and distribution of the main thermophilic communities and the tree and shrub species that comprise them, as well as a review of the most important human impacts and existing conservation strategies.