Part 1. General Conditions -- 1. Introduction to the Iberian Peninsula, General Features: Geography, Geology, Name, Brief History, Land use and Conservation (Javier Loidi) -- 2. Bioclimatology of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands (Salvador Rivas-Martínez, Ángel Penas, Sara del Río, Tomás E. Díaz González and Salvador Rivas-Sáenz) -- 3. Dynamism in Vegetation: Vegetation Changes on a Short Time Scale (Javier Loidi -- 4. The Iberian Vascular Flora: Richness, Endemicity and Distribution Patterns (Carlos Aedo, Antoni Buira, Leopoldo Medina and Marta Fernández-Albert) -- 5. Biogeographic Units of the Iberian Peninsula and Baelaric Islands to District Level: A Concise Synopsis (Salvador Rivas-Martínez. Ángel Penas, Tomás E. Díaz González, Paloma Cantó, Sara del Río, José Carlos Costa, Luis Herrero and Joaquín Molero) -- Part 2. Description of the Vegetation of the Territories -- 6. The Lowlands and Midlands of Northwestern Atlantic Iberia (Javier Amigo, Manuel Antonio Rodriguez-Guitián, João Jose Pradinho Honrado and Paulo Alves) -- 7. The High Mountain Area of Northwestern Spain: The Cantabrian Range, The Galician-Leonese Mountains and the Bierzo Trench (Tomás E. Díaz González and Ángel Penas) -- 8. The Pyrenees (Josep M Ninot, Empar Carrillo and Albert Ferré) -- 9. Trás-Os-Montes and Beira Alta (Carlos Aguiar and Carlos Vila-Viçosa) -- 10. The Duero Basin (Ángel Penas, Sara del Río, Luis Herrero and Miguel Ladero) -- 11. The Iberian Ranges and Highlands (Manuel Peinado, Juan Luis Aguirre and Alejandro Aparicio) -- 12. The Ebro Basin (Javier Loidi) -- 13. The Sistema Central (Central Range) (Daniel Sánchez-Mata, Rosario Gavilán and Vicenta de la Fuente) -- 14. The Coastal Levantine Area (Pilar Soriano and Manuel Costa).

This book provides a compact, up-to-date and detailed overview of the vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula, a highly diverse part of Europe in the Mediterranean area. Written by a group of experienced researchers, the volume includes a first section with general chapters discussing the climate, the biogeography and the flora, and a second section with detailed descriptions of the 14 regional sectors into which the peninsula and Balearic Islands have been divided. A third section explores special features, such as aquatic vegetation, gypsum and dolomite vegetation, coastal vegetation, mountain flora and vegetation, conservation issues and alien flora.