
Plant Systematics
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Description
Key Features
- Fifteen fern families, 9 gymnosperm families, and an increase of angiosperm family treatments from 100 to 129. Each family description includes a plate of full color photographs, illustrating exemplars of the group along with dissected and labeled material to show diagnostic features
- A new chapter on species concepts and the role and impact of plant systematics in conservation biology
- A new appendix on statistical and morphometric techniques in plant systematics
- In addition, the second edition contains more detailed explanations of maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogeny inference methods, an expanded coverage and glossary of morphological terms, and an updated chapter on botanical nomenclature
Readership
Table of Contents
- 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
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
2. Botanical Illustrations
3. Scientific Journals in Plant Systematics
4. Statistics and Morphometrics in Plant Systematics
Product details
- No. of pages: 752
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2010
- Published: July 19, 2010
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080922089
About the Author
Michael Simpson
In addition to publishing numerous articles in technical journals, Dr. Simpson has authored of the widely used textbook Plant Systematics (Elsevier-Academic Press, 2006; 2nd ed. 2010.)
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
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ChaunceyParker Thu Sep 13 2018
Outstanding textbook.
I got this to replace my 1976 Vascular Plant Systematics. This text is thorough, clear, (quite a bit of technical terminology), and has a logical progression. In-depth discussions on taxonomy, evolution of plants, genetics, plant morphology/terminology, and many descriptions of plant families and orders. I have read about a third of the book and look forward to spending more time with it.
miles s. Mon May 14 2018
Great book but digital edition is lacking
Great book with great content. The digital edition is difficult to navigate and as result makes it a poor resource. If were to buy it again I would find a used print copy.
miles s. Tue Jan 02 2018
Digital Edition is terrible - Great Book
The digital edition is terrible. The file is too large so it runs very slow when you scroll through pages. This makes it hard to read. Makes me wish I had just purchased the real thing instead The book itself is great! Covers all the material I expected and a staple for systematics classes