Author: Isabel Moskowich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789027209245
Category : Computational linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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This volume is the fourth of its kind devoted to the analysis of English language use in different scientific disciplines from 1700 to 1900. Forty texts on biology and related fields constitute the basis for describing scientific discourse on both methodological issues, the period, and the status of the discipline itself.
Author: James W. Byng
Publisher: Plant Gateway Ltd.
ISBN: 0992999316
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 627
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This plant book aims to help identify flowering plants to genus and family level anywhere in the world. In 2014 there were very few available works which were both comprehensive and up-to-date for all the flowering plants families and genera of the world. The Flowering Plants Handbook is an easy to use identification guide to the worlds flowering plants designed for both specialists and non-specialists and from beginner to expert. The book contains descriptions of all currently recognised flowering plant families, morphological notes for 6656 genera (all current genera for 398/413 families) and over 3000 images and illustrations. Flowering plants can be identified using the book to family and much of the world's generic diversity in four 'easy' steps. Some plants will be identified correctly quickly, whilst others may require some retracing of steps and take a little more time. The advantage of this book is that it helps the user learn about the classification system and plant diversity during the identification process. This work was compiled and developed using the living, library and herbarium collections at the University of Aberdeen, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Author: Alwyn H. Gentry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226289434
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 895
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To understand almost any part of the tropical rain forest's fabulously complex web of life, one must first learn to identify a bewildering array of plants. Alwyn Gentry's landmark book, completed just before his tragic death in 1993, is the only field guide to the nearly 250 families of woody plants in the most species-rich region of South America. As a consummate field researcher, Gentry designed this guide to be not just comprehensive, but also easy to use in rigorous field conditions. Unlike many field guides, which rely for their identifications on flowers and fruits that are only present during certain seasons, Gentry's book focuses on characters such as bark, leaves, and odor that are present year-round. His guide is filled with clear illustrations, step-by-step keys to identification, and a wealth of previously unpublished data. All biologists, wildlife managers, conservationists, and government officials concerned with the tropical rain forests will need and use this field guide. Alwyn Gentry was one of the world's foremost experts on the biology of tropical plants. He was senior curator at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and was a member of Conservation International's interdisciplinary Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) team, which inventories the biodiversity of the most threatened tropical areas. From 1967 to 1993 he collected more than 80,000 plant specimens, many of them new to science.
Author: Thomas Wayland Vaughan
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813720443
Category : Scleractinia
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Author: Charles R. Gunn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angiosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Author: Klaus Kubitzki
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662072572
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Compiled and written for advanced students, this encyclopedia contains a comprehensive treatment of the taxonomy of the families and genera of ferns and seed plants. The present volume, the sixth in this series, deals with five groups of dicotyledons, the Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, and Ericales, comprising 48 families.
Author: Joachim W. Kadereit
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319285343
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
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This volume covers the orders Boraginales, Garryales and Solanales (except Convolvulaceae) of the Lamiids (Asterids I) as well as three unplaced families of that clade, i.e. Vahliaceae, Icacinaceae and Metteniusaceae, and the orders Aquifoliales, Escalloniales, Bruniales, Dipsacales and Paracryphiales of the Campanulids (Asterids II). It is the first of two final volumes to (almost) complete the treatment of the Asterids, which started with Vol. VI (Cornales, Ericales, 2004) and continued with Vol. VII (Lamiales, 2004) and Vol. VIII (Asterales, 2007). The present volume provides descriptions for 35 families and altogether 340 genera, including three genera of somewhat uncertain family affiliation. It provides identification keys for families within orders and for all genera within families, and also discusses probable phylogenetic relationships. The wealth of information contained in this volume makes it an indispensable source for all those working in pure and applied plant sciences.
Author: Klaus Kubitzki
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662035316
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 521
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When Rolf Dahlgren and I embarked on preparing this book series, Rolf took prime responsibility for monocotyledons, which had interested him for a long time. After finishing his comparative study and family classification of the monocots, he devoted much energy to the acquisition and editing of family treatments for the present series. After his untimely death, Peter Goldblatt, who had worked with him, continued to handle further incoming monocot manuscripts until, in the early 1990s, his other obligations no longer allowed him to continue. At that time, some 30 manuscripts in various states of perfection had accumulated, which seemed to form a solid basis for a speedy completion of the FGVP monocots; with the exception of the grasses and orchids which would appear in separate volumes. I felt a strong obligation to do everything to help in publishing the manuscripts that had been put into our hands. I finally decided to take charge of them personally, although during my life as a botainst I had never seriously been interested in monocots.
Author: James W. Byng
Publisher: Plant Gateway Ltd.
ISBN: 0992999332
Category : Gymnosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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This plant book aims to help identify all extant gymnosperm plants to genus and family level anywhere in the world. The Gymnosperm Handbook is a practical teaching and identification guide, as well as, a useful reference work to the world's gymnosperms designed for both specialists and non-specialists and from beginner to expert. The book contains: (i) descriptions of all gymnosperm families; (ii) morphological notes for all currently recognised genera; (iii) practical keys to genera for all families; and (iv) over 160 images and illustrations.
Author: Joachim W. Kadereit
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642186173
Category : Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 487
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In this volume, 24 flowering plant families comprising a total of 911 genera are treated. They represent the asterid order Lamiales except for Acanthaceae (including Avicenniaceae), which will be included in a later volume. Although most of the constituent families of the order have been recognized as being closely related long ago, the inclusion of the families Byblidaceae, Carlemanniaceae and Plocospermataceae is the result mainly of recent molecular systematic research. Keys for the identification of all genera are provided, and likely phylogenetic relationships are discussed extensively. To facilitate the recognition of relationships, families are cross-referenced where necessary. The wealth of information contained in this volume makes it an indispensable source for anybody in the fields of pure and applied plant sciences.
