Plant Taxonomy: The Systematic Evaluation of Comparative DataThe field of plant taxonomy has transformed rapidly over the past fifteen years, especially with regard to improvements in cladistic analysis and the use of new molecular data. The second edition of this popular resource reflects these far-reaching and dramatic developments with more than 3,000 new references and many new figures. Synthesizing current research and trends, Plant Taxonomy now provides the most up-to-date overview in relation to monographic, biodiversity, and evolutionary studies, and continues to be an essential resource for students and scholars. |
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... effects developed at the population and species levels (Stebbins 1975; Bock 1979; Charlesworth, Lande, and Slatkin 1982; Coyne and Orr 2004) plus extinctions (Nitecki 1984; Novacek and Wheeler 1992; Steadman 2006). Some workers further ...
... effect would a strike of taxonomists have? The immediate effects would be few! A handful more people would die each day as the narcotics bureaus and emergency hospital services were unable to identify plant material; C H A P T E R ...
... effect, we are trying to describe and interpret reality (at least as far as we can ever come to know it). We classify everything in our environment including animate and inanimate objects such as furniture, cars, houses, clothes ...
... effect, force the classification to develop along these lines, which might be erroneous. Ovary position could be extremely variable within this group and show no correlations with other characters, or it also could be invariant, so that ...
... effects of such changes on the continued integrity of taxa. In other words, a taxonomic character is only as good as its constancy, no matter what its genetic basis” (1963:120). Some workers advocate selecting characters and states ...
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