Plant Diversity in the Central Great Caucasus: A Quantitative Assessment

A Geostatistical and Bioclimatological Comparison of the Central Great Caucasus and the Central Alps.- Vegetation of the Central Great Caucasus Along W-E and N-S Transects.- Plant Diversity of the Central Great Caucasus.- Quantitative Analysis of the Phytosociological Relevés From the Central Greater Caucasus.- A Comparison of Climatic Niches of the Same Alpine Plant Species in the Central Caucasus and the Alps.- New Indicator Values for Central Caucasus Flora.

Christian Körner is Professor emeritus from the University of Basel, Switzerland, and got his academic training in Innsbruck, Austria. His involvement in this book arises from his expertise in alpine plant life and alpine treeline research with an emphasis on global comparisons, on which he published two Springer books. Körner is a member of several academies of science and a foreign honorary member of the Ecological Society of America. He founded and chaired the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment for 15 years. He published more than 300 scientific articles and is one of the most highly cited authors in plant ecology. His many visits to the Caucasus date back to 1979, in 2014 he was awarded a Dr. h.c. from Ilia University, Tbilisi, Georgia.

George Nakhutsrishvili is an Emeritus Professor at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, as well as the Head of Department of Plant Systematics and Geography at Tbilisi Institute of Botany. He is a member of the Georgian and Austrian Academies of Sciences. He also serves as the Focal Point of the Caucasus Plant Red List Authority, IUCN.  He has previously worked as the Director of Tbilisi Institute of Botany for 25 years. His research interest is primarily in studies of alpine plant diversity and ecology, phytosociology, and plant Red Listing.

He has published more than 200 papers and completed work on 12 books.

Otar Abdaladze is a Professor of Ecology at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. He also serves as the director of Alpine Ecosystems Research Program in the Institute of Ecology of this university. He has previously worked as Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Ecology of Alpine Plant Vegetation of Tbilisi Institute of Botany. His research interest is primarily in plant functional ecology and diversity.