Plant Systematics, Third Edition has made substantial contributions to plant systematics courses at the upper-undergraduate and first year graduate level with the first edition winning The New York Botanical Garden's Henry Allan Gleason Award for outstanding recent publication in plant taxonomy, plant ecology or plant geography. This third edition continues to provide the basis for teaching an introduction to the morphology, evolution and classification of land plants. A foundation of the approach, methods, research goals, evidence and terminology of plant systematics are presented, along with the most recent knowledge of evolutionary relationships of plants and practical information vital to the field. In this new edition, the author includes greatly expanded treatments of families of flowering plants, as well as tropical trees (all with full-color plates), an updated explanation of maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference algorithms. Chapters on morphology and plant nomenclature also have been enhanced with new material. Covers research developments in plant molecular biologyFeatures clear, detailed cladograms, drawings and photosIncludes major revisions to chapters on phylogenetic systematics and plant morphology INDICE: UNIT I SYSTEMATICS 1. Plant Systematics: an Overview 2. Phylogenetic Systematics UNIT II EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY OF PLANTS 3. Evolution and Diversity of Green and Land Plants 4. Evolution and Diversity of Vascular Plants 5. Evolution and Diversity of Woody and Seed Plants 6. Evolution of Flowering Plants 7. Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: Amborellales, Nymphaeales, Austrobaileyales, Magnoliids, Ceratophyllales, and Monocots 8. Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: Eudicots UNIT III SYSTEMATIC EVIDENCE AND DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY 9. Plant Morphology Chapter 10. Plant Anatomy and Physiology 11. Plant Embryology 12. Palynology 13. Plant Reproductive Biology 14. Plant Molecular Systematics UNIT IV RESOURCES IN PLANT SYSTEMATICS 15. Plant Identification 16. Plant Nomenclature 17. Plant Collecting and Documentation 18. Herbaria and Data Information Systems UNIT V SPECIES CONCEPTS AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 19. Species and Conservation in Systematics Appendix 1 Plant Description Appendix 2 Botanical Illustrations Appendix 3 Scientific Journals in Plant Systematics Appendix 4 Statistics and Morphometrics in Plant Systematics
- ISBN: 978-0-12-812628-8
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 896
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2018
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