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
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
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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
Excellent text!
I would like to receive the paperback and electronic versions of the text to be able to prepare lectures.
This will be an excellent text for my plant systematics class for Spring 2024.
This is an excellent book on Plant Systematics, very comprehensive. I use it in a course for novices, and this text is not quite for novices. However, with guidance from instructors this book works well, and I particularly enjoy it because it also has chapters that provide a wider context in units IV 'Resources in Plant Systematics' and V 'Species Concepts and Conservation Biology'. These are the topics that make the subject matter attractive for undergraduate students in biology and associated fields.
Good organization of this text and accetable illustrations. I would like a copy of the illustrations for easier creation of class slides.
Cet ouvrage est excellent notamment pour sa concision et pour la qualité de ses illustrations. Très bon support de cours de Licence.
An excellent an well-updated textbook in plant systematics