Plant Systematics

Plant Systematics has made a substantial contribution to plant systematics courses at the upper-undergraduate and first year graduate level. This second edition continues to provide the basis for teaching an introduction to the morphology, evolution, and classification of land plants. A foundation of the approach, methods, research goals, evidence, and terminology of plant systematics are presented along with the most recent knowledge of evolutionary relationships of plants and practical information vital to the field.



In this second edition, the author includes greatly expanded treatments of families of lycophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, and flowering plants (all with full-color plates), a new chapter on species concepts and the role of systematics in conservation biology, and a new appendix summarizing basic statistical and morphometric techniques used in plant systematics studies. An explanation of maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference algorithms is included in methods of phylogenetic inference, and chapters on morphology and plant nomenclature have been augmented with new material.




Readership
Graduate and undergraduate students in botany, plant taxonomy, plant systematics, plant pathology, plant anatomy, and ecology; scientists and researchers in any of the plant sciences

Contents
UNIT I SYSTEMATICS

Chapter 1 Plant Systematics: an Overview
REVISED AND UPDATED


Chapter 2 Phylogenetic Systematics
RE-WRITTEN TO INCLUDE MAJOR CHANGES/EMPHASIS IN THE FIELD OF PHYLOGENETIC SYSTEMATICS

UNIT II EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY OF PLANTS

Chapter 3 Evolution and Diversity of Green and Land Plants
EXPANDED TO INCLUDE SOME FAMILY TREATMENTS OF FERNS AND GYMNOSPERMS


Chapter 4 Evolution and Diversity of Vascular Plants
EXPANDED TO INCLUDE SOME FAMILY TREATMENTS OF FERNS AND GYMNOSPERMS


Chapter 5 Evolution and Diversity of Woody and Seed Plants
EXPANDED TO INCLUDE SOME FAMILY TREATMENTS OF FERNS AND GYMNOSPERMS.


Chapter 6 Evolution of Flowering Plants
REVISED AND UPDATED


Chapter 7 Diversity and classification of Flowering Plants: Amborellales, Nymphaeales,
Austrobaileyales, Magnoliids, Ceratophyllales, and Monocots
EXPANDED TO INCLUDE SEVERAL ADDITIONAL FAMILY TREATMENTS


Chapter 8 Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: Eudicots
EXPANDED TO INCLUDE SEVERAL ADDITIONAL FAMILY TREATMENTS

UNIT III SYSTEMATIC EVIDENCE AND DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY

Chapter 9 Plant Morphology
REVISED AND UPDATED


Chapter 10 Plant Anatomy
REVISED AND UPDATED


Chapter 11 Plant Embryology
REVISED AND UPDATED


Chapter 12 Palynology
REVISED AND UPDATED


Chapter 13 Plant Reproductive Biology
REVISED AND UPDATED


Chapter 14 Molecular Systematics
REVISED AND UPDATED

UNIT IV RESOURCES IN PLANT SYSTEMATICS

Chapter 15 Plant Identification
REVISED AND UPDATED


Chapter 16 Plant Nomenclature
REVISED AND UPDATED


Chapter 17 Plant Collecting and Documentation
REVISED AND UPDATED


Chapter 18 Herbaria and Data Information Systems
EXPANDED TO INCLUDE A MORE DETAILED TREATMENT OF FLORAS AND MONOGRAPHS


Chapter 19 Species and Infraspecies Concepts in Plant Systematics
NEW CHAPTER


Chapter 20 Conservation Biology and Systematics
NEW CHAPTER

Appendix 1 Plant Description
Appendix 2 Botanical Illustrations
Appendix 3 Scientific Journals in Plant Systematics
Appendix 4 Statistics and Morphometrics in Plant Systematics - NEW APPENDIX

Glossary of terms
Index


Author Information
By Michael G. Simpson, San Diego State University, California, U.S.A.