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Plant Systematics

3rd Edition - November 10, 2019

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  • Author: Michael Simpson
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780128126288
  • eBook ISBN: 9780128126295

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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 on families of flowering plants, as well as tropical trees (all with full-color plates), and an updated explanation of maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference algorithms. Chapters on morphology and plant nomenclature have also been enhanced with new material.

Key Features

  • Covers research developments in plant molecular biology
  • Features clear, detailed cladograms, drawings and photos
  • Includes major revisions to chapters on phylogenetic systematics and plant morphology

Readership

Graduate and undergraduate students in botany, plant taxonomy, plant systematics, plant pathology, plant anatomy, and ecology; scientists and researchers in any of the plant sciences

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 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

Product details

  • No. of pages: 774
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
  • Published: November 10, 2019
  • Imprint: Academic Press
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780128126288
  • eBook ISBN: 9780128126295

About the Author

Michael Simpson

Dr. Michael G. Simpson has been a professor of Biology at San Diego State University since 1986. His area of expertise is plant systematics, dealing with the description, identification, naming and classification of plants with the overriding goal of inferring the pattern of evolutionary history (phylogeny). Dr. Simpson has taught courses in Principles of Organismal Biology, Plant Systematics, Taxonomy of California Plants, Economic Botany, Genetics and Evolution, and Seminar in Systematics and Evolution. Additionally, he serves as the Curator of the SDSU Herbarium where he oversees the maintenance, organization, and use of the collection and facilitates additions to the herbarium. Currently, his field work in Chile and Argentina is supported in part by the National Geographic Society.

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

San Diego State University, California, USA

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  • Pamela C. Mon Sep 27 2021

    Plant Systematics

    Only partly read. Very thorough with tons of information. Will take ages to read and absorb