Plant Systematics 3rd Edition

[THIS VERSION IS DIFFERENT FROM KINDLE VERSION AVAILABLE IN LIB GEN REPOSITORIES]. 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. Cover Front matter Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Preface UNIT I SYSTEMATICS Chapter 1 Plant Systematics: An Overview Chapter 2 Evolution and Diversity of Vascular Plants UNIT II EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY OF PLANTS Chapter 3 Evolution and Diversity of Green and Land Plants Chapter 4 Evolution and Diversity of Vascular Plants Chapter 5 Evolution and Diversity of Woody and Seed plants Chapter 6 Evolution of Flowering Plants Chapter 7 Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: Amborellales, Nymphaeales, Austrobaileyales, Magnoliids, Monocots, and Ceratophyllales Chapter 8 Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: Eudicots UNIT III SYSTEMATIC EVIDENCE AND DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY Chapter 9 Plant Morphology Chapter 10 Plant Anatomy and Physiology Chapter 11 Plant Embryology Chapter 12 Palynology Chapter 13 Plant Reproductive Biology Chapter 14 Plant Molecular Systematics UNIT IV RESOURCES IN PLANT SYSTEMATICS Chapter 15 Plant Identification Chapter 16 Plant Nomenclature Chapter 17 Plant Collecting and Documentation Chapter 18 Herbaria and Data Information Systems UNIT V SPECIES CONCEPTS AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY Chapter 19 Species and Conservation in Plant Systematics Appendix 1 Plant Description Appendix 2 Botanical Illustrations Appendix 3 Scientific Journals in Plant Systematics Appendix 4 Statistics and Morphometrics in Plant Systematics Glossary of terms Index "Plant Systematics, Second Edition, provides the basis for teaching an introduction to the morphology, evolution, and classification of land plants. It presents a foundation of the approach, methods, research goals, evidence, and terminology of plant systematics, along with the most recent knowledge of evolutionary relationships of plants and practical information vital to the field. This updated edition has been expanded to include 15 fern families, 9 gymnosperm families, and increased 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. The book includes a new chapter on species concepts and the role and impact of plant systematics in conservation biology, and a new appendix on statistical and morphometric techniques in plant systematics. It also 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. This book is recommended for graduate and undergraduate students in botany, plant taxonomy, plant systematics, plant pathology, plant anatomy, and ecology as well as scientists and researchers in any of the plant sciences."--Publisher's description

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.

• 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