Using cases of plant migration documented by both historical and fossil evidence, Jonathan D. Sauer provides a landmark assessment of what is presently known, and not merely assumed, about the process.

Jonathan D. Sauer is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"A refreshing new approach. . . . This book has brought together plant ecology, migration, evolution, and phytogeography in a thought-stimulating way."—Ghillean T. Prance, Bioscience

"Sauer has written a rounded 'human' biogeography, which shows the complexity of the subject, the distinctiveness of each migration pattern, and which has removed much of the unreal abstraction."—Philip Stott, Journal of Biogeography

"I congratulate [Sauer] on the book and recommend it to all plant biologists whose work concerns any aspect of the distribution patterns of higher plants at any spatial or temporal scale."—Brian Huntley, International Journal of Environmental Studies

"Sauer has written a timely review that deserves immediate and broad attention."—Thompson Webb III, Ecology