Vascular Plant Taxonomy
Edition: 7
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 668
Edition: 7
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 668
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Vascular Plant Taxonomy excites and encourages students to extend their own studies in the myriad of directions that attract their curiosity.
It gives the reader a sense of accomplishment that the ever-broadening field of taxonomy is within their grasp.
Vascular Plant Taxonomy is the only truly introductory systematics text available. Concisely written, the text targets the beginning student and is designed to be mastered in a single semester.
The new 7th edition includes:
- The System presentation that follows the phylogeny advocated by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, including illustrations of phylogenetic trees.
- Line-drawn illustrations.
- Up-to-date Web resources described in the text.
- Newly developed methods to explore evolutionary relationships of plants and new data (especially molecular data).
- End-of-chapter exercises to ensure students retain information learned.
- Updated extensive keys designed for determining plant families in both wild and cultivated groups.
PART 1
Taxonomy, Nomenclature, and Tools
CHAPTER 1
Introduction to Plant Taxonomy
CHAPTER 2
Botanical Nomenclature
CHAPTER 3
Tools for the Taxonomist
CHAPTER 4
Collecting and Preserving Plants for Study
PART 2
Character Variation
CHAPTER 5
Vegetative Variation
CHAPTER 6
Reproductive Variation
CHAPTER 7
Molecular Variation
PART 3
Discovery of Species and Clades
CHAPTER 8
A Brief History of Classification
CHAPTER 9
Phylogenetics, Deep Time, and Modern Classification
CHAPTER 10
Shallow Time, Species, and Intraspecies Studies
PART 4
Plant Diversity
CHAPTER 11
Survey of the Vascular Plants
CHAPTER 12
Lycopodiopsida and Monilophyta
CHAPTER 13
Gymnosperms
CHAPTER 14
Flowering Plants: Introduction and Early Evolution
CHAPTER 15
Monocots
CHAPTER 16
Basal Eudicots
CHAPTER 17
Rosids
CHAPTER 18
Asterids
Appendix 1: Key to Families of Vascular Plants
Glossary
Index
"Taxonomy is a neglected skill that needs to be taught more often. We need good taxonomists now more than ever! I love Vascular Plant Taxonomy’s exercises at the end of each chapter – they are very helpful in illustrating the concepts to students."
Dorothy Bay
Missouri Southern State University
"Vascular Plant Taxonomy is very adaptable to my one-semester plant taxonomy course because many of the chapters are written so that they need not be assigned in the sequence they appear in the text. The graphics package is excellent and my students use the text right along with their study of specimens in the laboratory."
John E. Silvius
Cedarville University
"Vascular Plant Taxonomy is perhaps the best text out there to teach plant taxonomy in North America. I love the way the family descriptions are set up and the preceding information on taxonomy-related topics. The information is so accessible and is ideal for both beginning and advanced students of taxonomy."
Nishanta Rajakaruna
College of the Atlantic
"Vascular Plant Taxonomy is THE best textbook for introducing students to floral anatomy and phylogeny at the Family level. The illustrations are truly beautiful and clearly indicate the distinguishing characteristics of the Families and Genera; and text notes on genera of economic significance place the families in the broader human context."
Tim Krantz
University of Redlands
"I like the organization of Vascular Plant Taxonomy, the extensive information on key families, the good line drawings, and the review exercises."
Mary Vetter
Luther College
"Vascular Plant Taxonomy does an outstanding job of meeting the needed balance between learning identification and the more inclusive and ever broadening characters used in classification. VPT goes beyond the morphology to introduce us to the newer methods of examining species relationships. Family characters are well illustrated and easily interpreted."
Stephan L. Hatch
Texas A & M University
"I have chosen Vascular Plant Taxonomy over the years for several reasons. It has great morphology diagrams that are well organized and accompanied with good sections on terminology. The family section is a wonderful reference providing clear and comprehensive diagrams (floral diagrams, variations in morphology, etc.) and the family descriptions and notes are consistent and complete. Most of all it is a good introductory text for undergraduates and isn't overwhelming with lots of other materials that are insignificant to beginners in plant taxonomy."
Cindy L. Johnson
Gustavus Adolphus College
"Vascular Plant Taxonomy has proven over several years to be a useful text for students who enroll in a one-term field botany course I instruct. Even though students in the course have diverse academic backgrounds, the text fulfills their needs: Concise presentations of basic concepts and terminology are balanced skillfully with thorough, but not overwhelming, explanations and examples of advanced techniques, interpretations and current understanding of plants' phylogenetic relationships. Taxon descriptions are comprehensible and summary review questions effectively reinforce key features of selected families."
Daniel D. Jones
University of Alabama at Birmingham
"The feedback I receive from my taxonomy students is that Vascular Plant Taxonomy is easy to read and the information given is comprehensible. They also like the opportunity to test themselves, or for homework, the questions at the end of each chapter."
Stephen Timme
Pittsburg State University
"I’ve been using Vascular Plant Taxonomy for over 10 years to teach Systematic Botany at Delaware State University. I’ve considered other texts, and this one best meets the needs of the students – it covers the information in a thorough, interesting and concise fashion. I especially like the clear way in which the individual plant families are presented."
Susan Yost
Delaware State University