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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... position of all systematic work and is less often subject to argument between fellow workers. The material available for generic revisions frequently amounts to many hundreds or even thousands of specimens, a number sufficient to permit ...
... position. He may be able to assimilate the 'facies' of an organism at a glance, but in order to interpret to others what he sees, he must mentally dissect the organism and describe it as a series of characters, some of which may have ...
... position could be extremely variable within this group and show no correlations with other characters, or it also could be invariant, so that a posteriori it would not be a suitable taxonomic character (it could be a useful character in ...
... position as professor of botany at Montpellier and eventually returned to Geneva at the Conservatoire de Botanique where he resided for the remainder of his professional career. His new natural system of classification was presented in ...
... positions in each of the different systems. Because Adanson's system was unbelievably original for its time, it had ... position in the Royal Botanical Garden in Paris. Burtt (1965), Jacobs (1966), and Nelson (1979) have commented that ...
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Plant Taxonomy: The Systematic Evaluation of Comparative Data Tod F. Stuessy No preview available - 2009 |