Plant Systematics, 2nd Edition, Author: Michael G. Simpson, Published: July 2010, ISBN: 9780123743800, Academic Press, Hardcover

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Product Details

Hardcover: 752 pages

Publisher: Academic Press; 2 edition (July, 2010)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 012374380X

ISBN-13: 978-0123743800

Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 1.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds

Key Features

The second edition of Plant Systematics has been expanded to include:

*  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.

Description

Plant Systematics has made a substantial contribution to plant systematics courses at the upper-undergraduate and first year graduate level. This second 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 second edition, the author includes greatly expanded treatments of families of lycophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, and flowering plants (all with full-color plates), a new chapter on species concepts and the role of systematics in conservation biology, and a new appendix summarizing basic statistical and morphometric techniques used in plant systematics studies.  An explanation of maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference algorithms is included in methods of phylogenetic inference, and chapters on morphology and plant nomenclature have been augmented with new  material.   

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

Plant Systematics, 2nd Edition

UNIT I SYSTEMATICS

 
Chapter 1 Plant Systematics: an Overview 
Chapter 2 Phylogenetic Systematics

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, Ceratophyllales, and Monocots 
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 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