Encinos de Mexico - a New Book about Mexican Oaks (in Spanish)

Exciting news for quercophiles: a new book about Mexican oaks will be published in June. It will be in Spanish, but extensively illustrated. It is available for pre-order with an attractive discount on cover price. Below is an image of the sales brochure, with a translation of the text.

A new book on the oaks of Mexico will be published (in Spanish) June 18, 2015. Authored by Silvia Romero Rangel, Ezequiel Carlos Rojas Zenteno and Liliana Elizabeth Rubio Licona, the publication is billed as one of most relevant editorial contributions to taxonomic knowledge of this genus, in Mexico and the world. The book consists of 298 pages with 100 color illustrations, and a pocket with 150 pages with color images for field identification, encased in an engraved box. Contents include:

• morphological and taxonomical aspects of oaks
• the importance and use of oaks in Mexico
• ecological considerations of Mexican oaks
• birds in Mexican oak woodlands: diversity of species, endemism and faunal relationships
• karyotypic studies
• genetic diversity analysis
• morphological descriptions and color illustrations of over 100 Mexican oaks
• glossary

Book presentation to take place June 18, 20145 at 1 p.m., at the Unidad de Seminarios at the Facultad de Estudios Superiores de Iztacala in Tlanelpantla, state of Mexico.

Price: MXN 1,500 (approx. USD 100 at current exchange rate) + shipping

Advance purchase price (available through June 18): MXN 1,000 (approx. USD 67 at current exchange rate) + shipping

Copies ordered through advance purchase will be delivered as from June 18.

For more information and to pre-order your copy, contact Silvia Romero Rangel at sromero@unam.mx. Payment via PayPal will be accepted.