Neotropical Plant Families
Author: Paul J. M. Maas
Publisher: Lubrecht & Cramer Limited
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9783874293976
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Paul J. M. Maas
Publisher: Lubrecht & Cramer Limited
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9783874293976
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nathan P. Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9780691116945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The expert text describes each family's features, diversity of genera and species, distribution, habitat, classification, botany, natural history, and economic uses. More than 300 color illustrations and 250 botanical line drawings illustrate these showiest of New World plants - flora that range from the deserts of Mexico and the coasts of Central America to the vast lowland rain forests of Amazonia and the cloud forests of the Andes. Some of the plants described are distributed widely; others inhabit only one of the many unusual microclimates and habitats that result from tropical America's incredible variation in elevation and rainfall and its millions of years of geological change."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Alwyn H. Gentry
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1993-01-27
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780300054484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The sites; Floristics; Birds; Mammals; Reptiles and amphibians; Forest dynamics.
Author: David L. Hawksworth
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1995-11-30
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780412752209
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Leading experts on the field of biodiversity examine examples from a wide range of organism groups. Their approaches include the latest molecular and phylogenetic techniques through to the selection of indicator data and aspects of sampling. This paperback edition has been published for students on 'biodiversity' related courses.
Author: Alwyn H. Gentry
Publisher:
Published: 1993-01
Total Pages: 895
ISBN-13: 9780226289434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Roland Keller
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-03-12
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 3031059425
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides an identification system permitting recognition of plant families in all seasons by means of morphological and macroanatomical features which are easily observable, such as bark, exudates, stems and leaves characters. Studies of forest vegetation may differ in their underlying objectives, but they all require taxonomic knowledge. The process of taxonomy begins with an inventory of the flora, which has been based to a large extent on reproduction-related organs, such as flowers and fruits. But, those are often difficult to observe and may not exist in the field at a given time. Unlike most such guides or keys, this book can be used anywhere in the tropics and provides, in a straightforward two or three-step process, identification to the level of families, which are now circumscribed according to molecular as well as morphological characters in the universally accepted scheme of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. Plant architecture is not a prerequisite theme for plant identification; however, we think that an introduction to this subject is not out of place in this book (architectural traits are taxonomically sound): it is now time for botanists working in the tropics to have an idea on how the whole organism keeps growing. Within the family accounts, there is information concerning important economic plants with notes on the larger genera and, particularly helpfully, discussion of families readily confused and how to separate them. Descriptions of the families rely on short diagnosis bolstered by many photographic pictures, lines drawings and extracts from the author’s field books, all showing features of plants as they are found in the forest.
Author: Nancy C. Garwood
Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Knowledge of seedling ecology is essential for understanding the local abundance, distribution, and dynamics of plant species, for deciphering the mechanisms of high species diversity in tropical forests, and for forest conservation and management.
Author: Raymond J. Gagné
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780801427862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gagne's introductory chapters include biographical sketches of those individuals who have contributed most to our knowledge of Neotropical gall midges. He also discusses classification and distribution, external anatomy and biology, and techniques for collecting, rearing, and preparing specimens for study. The heart of the book comprises two chapters. The first presents the midges themselves: identification keys to the genera, a synopsis of each genus and higher taxon, and a list of all known species from South America. The second includes keys and descriptions of galls and other damage caused by the midges, with known hosts.
Author: Joachim W. Kadereit
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 3642186173
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Peter Goldblatt
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2019-05-28
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 160469498X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Learn how to identify the most important temperate plant families Based on the most up-to-date research, Temperate Garden Plant Families spans the spectrum from Acanthaceae (the acanthus family) to Zingiberaceae (the ginger family), and reflects the current scientific consensus about the family status of the most popular garden genera. Introductory information includes an overview of family classification, plant nomenclature, and plant morphology. The comprehensive A–Z of plants includes profiles that include information on the number of species and genera, plant form, flowers, fruit, and a short description. Each profile is illustrated with color photographs and botanical illustrations. Botanists, horticulturists, gardeners, and students will all welcome this authoritative yet accessible reference.