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Book Steyermark s Flora of Missouri

Download or read book Steyermark s Flora of Missouri written by Julian Alfred Steyermark and published by Missouri Botanical Garden Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Flora of Missouri project, directed by Garden Curator, Dr. George Yatskievych, is an ongoing effort to update and compile information on the state's flora. It began in 1987 as a joint effort of the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Missouri Department of Conservation. One of its main goals is a three-volume revision of former Missouri Botanical Garden curator Julian A. Steyermark's 'Flora of Missouri', first published in 1963. Missouri's ever changing plant diversity, the shifting distributions of its plant species, and the many new records of plants in the state have necessitated an expansion of Steyermark's original publication into three volumes."--

Book The Natural History of Pollination  Collins New Naturalist Library  Book 83

Download or read book The Natural History of Pollination Collins New Naturalist Library Book 83 written by Michael Proctor and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brand new, fully updated edition of the natural history classic first published in the New Naturalist series in 1973 as The Pollination of Flowers. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com

Book Remarkable Creatures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sean B. Carroll
  • Publisher : HMH
  • Release : 2014-10-16
  • ISBN : 0547526148
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Remarkable Creatures written by Sean B. Carroll and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: A biologist’s “thoroughly enjoyable” account of the expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet (Publishers Weekly). Not so long ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species’ history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. But scientists were about to embark on an amazing new era of understanding. From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Big Picture, this book leads us on a rousing voyage that recounts the most important discoveries in two centuries of natural history: from Darwin’s trip around the world to Charles Walcott’s discovery of pre-Cambrian life in the Grand Canyon; from Louis and Mary Leakey’s investigation of our deepest past in East Africa to the trailblazers in modern laboratories who have located a time clock in our DNA. Filled with the same sense of adventure that spurred on these extraordinary men and women, Remarkable Creatures is a “stirring introduction to the wonder of evolutionary biology” (Kirkus Reviews). “Charming and enlightening.” —San Francisco Chronicle “As fast-paced as a detective story.” —Nature

Book Life History Evolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek A. Roff
  • Publisher : Sinauer Associates Incorporated
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780878937561
  • Pages : 527 pages

Download or read book Life History Evolution written by Derek A. Roff and published by Sinauer Associates Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life History Evolution represents a synthetic approach to the understanding of the evolution of life history variation using the three types of environment (constant, stochastic, predictable) as the focus under which the theory is developed and tested. First, the author outlines a general framework for the study and analysis of life history variation, bringing together the approaches of quantitative genetic modeling and optimality analysis. Using this framework, he then discusses how life histories evolve in the three different types of environments, each of which presents unique characteristics. The theme of the book is that an understanding of evolutionary change requires analysis at both the genetic and phenotypic levels, and that the environment plays a central role in such analyses. Intended for graduate students and researchers, the book's emphasis is on assumptions and testing of models. Mathematical processes are described, but mathematical derivations are kept to a minimum. Each chapter includes a summary, and boxes provide supplementary material.

Book Bryophyte Systematics

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  • Author : Norton G. Miller
  • Publisher : Gebruder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Bryophyte Systematics written by Norton G. Miller and published by Gebruder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung. This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pollination of Flowers

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  • Author : Michael Proctor
  • Publisher : Collins
  • Release : 2009-07-14
  • ISBN : 9780007308354
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Pollination of Flowers written by Michael Proctor and published by Collins. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The methods by which pollen grains reach a stigma, enabling fertilization and seed production to take place, include some of the most varied and fascinating mechanisms in the whole world of living things. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com The role of insects in pollinating flowers is today a commonplace - so that it is easy to forget that its discovery is little older than the invention of the steam engine: before that, we imagined that the concern of bees with flowers was simply a matter of collecting honey. But the methods by which pollen grains reach a stigma, enabling fertilization and seed production to take place, include some of the most varied and fascinating mechanisms in the whole world of living things. This book, an important addition to the New Naturalist series and to scientific literature, is a clear and thorough account of all the ways in which pollination is effected - by wine, water, even bats; but principals, in many curious ways, by diversity of insect species. The authors are both distinguished botanists - Dr. Proctor at Exeter University, Dr. Yeo at Cambridge - with a wide knowledge of insects. Illustrated with 134 of their own drawings, with 19 photographs in colour and 180 in black and white, the book offers a unique introduction to a complex yet easily accessible subject of great fascination.

Book Types of Floral Mechanism

Download or read book Types of Floral Mechanism written by Arthur Harry Church and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sex Life of Flowers

Download or read book The Sex Life of Flowers written by Bastiaan Meeuse and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text describe the variety of methods evolved by plants to achieve pollination.

Book The Story of Pollination

Download or read book The Story of Pollination written by Bastiaan Meeuse and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Floral Biology

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  • Author : M. Percival
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 2013-10-22
  • ISBN : 1483293025
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Floral Biology written by M. Percival and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floral Biology attempts to show how floral biologists conduct their experiments and what techniques they employ in floral biology. The techniques employed include those of physics, chemistry, physiology, psychology, genetics, and ecology, and so constitute a broad training in biology that may be useful and acceptable in other fields. Organized into 11 chapters, this book begins with a discussion on sex in flowers; the biology of the floral parts; agencies of pollination; and the pollen, nectar, and nectaries. Some chapters follow on pollination by birds, bats, and insects. The features of entomophilous flowers and isolating mechanisms in flowers are also described. Some hints for students, such as the tools required, how to make them, and a schedule of procedure for examining the floral biology of a species, are given in the last chapter. This book will attract workers, who, armed with the techniques and stimulated by the findings of the investigators, can introduce the floral biology to other fields.

Book A Check List of British Insects

Download or read book A Check List of British Insects written by George Sidney Kloet and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Flower Pollination

Download or read book Handbook of Flower Pollination written by Paul Knuth and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Book Vegetation of Britain and Ireland

Download or read book Vegetation of Britain and Ireland written by Michael Proctor and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another volume in the popular New Naturalist Series, this book covers all aspects of the plant life of Britain and Ireland. Michael Proctor, an expert in his field, discusses the development of the landscape of Britain and Ireland from prehistoric times, including the influence of people and their agricultural practices on the vegetation. He provides a comprehensive account of all the different types of plant habitat in Britain and Ireland: from woodlands and scrubland to meadows and grasslands, from wetlands and peatlands to heaths, and from the mountain vegetation to the sea coast. He examines the history and ecology of each of these habitats, and describes the rich variety of flora found living there. The author concludes with an account of the changes to our landscape which have taken place during the twentieth century, and prospects for the future, including the effects of environmental change.

Book The Natural History of Plants

Download or read book The Natural History of Plants written by Anton Kerner von Marilaun and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: