Plant systematics / Michael G. Simpson.
By: Simpson, Michael G. (Michael George) [author]
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BookPublisher: Burlington, MA : Elsevier [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Third edition.Description: xii, 761 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780128126288 (paperback); 0128126280 (paperback).Subject(s): Plants -- ClassificationDDC classification: 580.12 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Barcode | |
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Plant systematics: an overview -- Taxonomy and phylogenetic systematics -- Evolution and diversity of green and land plants -- Evolution and diversity of vascular plants -- Evolution and diversity of woody and seed plants -- Evolution of flowering plants -- Diversity and classification of flowering plants: amborellales, nymphaeales, austrobaileyales, magnoliids, monocots, and ceratophyllales -- Diversity and classification of flowering plants: eudicots -- Plant morphology -- Plant anatomy and physiology -- Plant embryology -- Palynology -- Plant reproductive biology -- Plant molecular systematics -- Plant identification -- Plant nomenclature -- Plant collecting and documentation -- Herbaria and data information systems -- Species and conservation in plant systematics.
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Author notes provided by Syndetics
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.)