Download or read book Systematics Evolution and Ecology of Melastomataceae written by Renato Goldenberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a synthesis of critical new information for the Melastomataceae, one of the ten richest families among flowering plants with over 5,800 species that has its diversity highly concentrated in tropical or subtropical areas. It describes the family’s global diversity and distribution and summarizes recent advances in systematics, evolution, biogeography, reproductive biology and ecology.
Download or read book Evolution Systematics and Ecology of the Myrmecophytic Genus Tococa Melastomataceae written by Fabián Armando Michelangeli and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monocots Systematics and Evolution written by Karen L Wilson and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2000-05-19 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monocots: Systematics and Evolution presents leading work from around the world on non-grass monocotyledons and includes reviews and current research into their comparative biology, phylogeny and classification. The papers are based on presentations at the Second International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons, Monocots II, held in Sydney, Australia in late 1998. Many were subsequently updated or extended to take into account new information. All 72 papers have been peer-reviewed.
Download or read book Dicotyledons Rosids written by Urs Eggli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 1155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The succulent species of the families of subclass Rosidae are presented by alphabet of families, genera, and species, with comprehensive listings of synonyms added at all levels. Detailed descriptions are given for all accepted taxa, together with data on the distribution and typification, and references to the most important literature. Where necessary, information on ecology, ethnobotany, history, etc. is added, and in many places, proposed relationships are critically discussed. The volume covers the succulents from the families Anacardiacae, Begoniaceae, Bixaceae, Brassicaceae, Burseraceae, Capparaceae, Caricaceae, Clusiaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae, Francoaceae, Geraniaceae, Malvaceae, Melastomataceae, Meliaceae, Moraceae, Moringaceae, Oxalidaceae, Passifloraceae, Sapindaceae, Tropaeolaceae, Urticaceae, Vitaceae and Zygophyllaceae.
Download or read book Systematics of the Genus Monochaetum Melastomataceae in Mexico and Central America written by Frank Almeda and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taxonomic history; Systematic position and general relationships; Comparative morphology; Chromosome numbers; Distribution, habitat, and flowering; Pollination and breeding system; Natural hybridization and speciation; Intrageneric relationships; Taxonomic rationale for the conservative approach; Taxonomic treatment; Key to species Monochaetum in Mexico and Central America; Uncertain species; Excluded species.
Download or read book Plant Systematics written by Tod F. Stuessy and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with biodiversity from evolution and interpretation of evolution as well as taxonomy. The relationships of Plant Systematics to Biodiversity is in the conclusion has an index to Taxa Index to subjects
Download or read book Systematic Studies in the Melastomataceae written by Susanne Renner and published by New York Botanical Garden Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renner provides a systematic treatment of seven Species of Bellucia, 13 species of Loreya, & 22 species of Macairea. Included are inter- & intrageneric relations, pollen morphology, chemistry, & excluded taxa.
Download or read book Plant Systematics written by Michael G. Simpson and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant Systematics, Third Edition, has made substantial contributions to plant systematics courses at the upper-undergraduate and first year graduate level, with the first edition winning The New York Botanical Garden's Henry Allan Gleason Award for outstanding recent publication in plant taxonomy, plant ecology or plant geography. This third 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 new edition, the author includes greatly expanded treatments on families of flowering plants, as well as tropical trees (all with full-color plates), and an updated explanation of maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference algorithms. Chapters on morphology and plant nomenclature have also been enhanced with new material. Covers research developments in plant molecular biology Features clear, detailed cladograms, drawings and photos Includes major revisions to chapters on phylogenetic systematics and plant morphology
Download or read book Systematics and Evolution written by David J. McLaughlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes treatments of systematics and related topics for both fungi and fungus-like organisms in four eukaryotic supergroups, as well as specialized chapters on nomenclature, techniques and evolution. These organisms are of great interest to mycologists, plant pathologists and others, including those interested in the animal parasitic Microsporidia. Our knowledge of the systematics and evolution of fungi has made great strides since the first edition of this volume, largely driven by molecular phylogenetic analyses. Consensus among mycologists has led to a stable systematic treatment that has since become widely adopted and is incorporated into this second edition, along with a great deal of new information on evolution and ecology. The systematic chapters cover occurrence, distribution, economic importance, morphology and ultrastructure, development of taxonomic theory, classification, and maintenance and culture. Other chapters deal with nomenclatural changes necessitated by revisions of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants, including the elimination of separate names for asexual states, as well as methods for preservation of cultures and specimens, character evolution and methods for ultrastructural study, the fungal fossil record, and the impact of whole genomes on fungal studies.
Download or read book Evolution Systematics and Fossil History of the Hamamelidae Introduction and lower Hamamelidae written by Peter R. Crane and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume presents a unique treatment of recent findings regarding the Hamamelidae, flowering plants which are of critical importance to the evolution and phylogeny of the dicotyledons. It integrates data from living and fossil taxa, and contains the latest information on the phylogenetic position of the Hamamelidae with respect to other dicotyledons, leaf architecture, sieve element plastids, karylogy, and Cretaceous fossil history. Coverage also includes relationships within the Trochodendrales and Hamamelidales sensu lato, the phylogenetic position of the Myrothamnaaceae, and the morphology and systematics of the Hamamelidaceae, Buxaceae, Didymelaceae, and Daphniphyllaceae.
Download or read book Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics written by Clive A. Stace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, up-to-date and fully-integrated discussion of present-day plant taxonomy.
Download or read book Volume 1 Morphology and Systematics Archostemata Adephaga Myxophaga Polyphaga partim written by Rolf G. Beutel and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of four volumes in the Handbook of Zoology series which treat the systematics and biology of Coleoptera. With approximately 350,000 described species, Coleoptera are by far the most species-rich order of insects and the largest group of animals of comparable geological age. The beetle volumes will meet the demand of modern biologists seeking to answer questions about Coleoptera phylogeny, evolution, and ecology. This first Coleoptera volume covers the suborders Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga, and the basal series of Polyphaga, with information on world distribution, biology, morphology of all life stages (including anatomy), phylogeny and comments on taxonomy.
Download or read book Systematics and Phylogeny of Siphanthera Melastomataceae written by Frank Almeda and published by Amer Society of Plant Taxonomists. This book was released on 2011 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study represents the first attempt to evaluate generic and species limits in the South American genus Siphanthera by incorporating new information from macromorphology, pollen and seed micromorphology, chromosome cytology, a cladistic analysis, and distributional information. Available data provide a rationale for recognizing Siphanthera as a monophyletic genus of fifteen species with a bicentric distribution centered in the Brazilian Planalto, and the Guayana Highlands and contiguous areas. The monotypic genus Farringtonia has been merged with Siphanthera during this study and two new species are proposed here, S. todziae from the Amazon Basin and S. wurdackii from the Brazilian Planalto. The recent assignment of Siphanthera to the broadly defined tribe Melastomeae is called into question pending the results of a forthcoming family-wide multi-gene phylogenetic analysis. An evaluation of taxonomic characters used to recognize previous infrageneric groups has led to the abandonment of a formal sectional classification of the genus. Some major evolutionary trends in Siphanthera include: change from a perennial to an annual life cycle; change in foliar venation from basal acrodromous to loss of secondaries in one direction and change in the prominence of secondary veins and their pattern of divergence from the primary vein in another direction; reduction in inflorescence complexity from branched compound dichasia to congested capituliform inflorescences or few-flowered or solitary flowered inflorescences; change in petal shape from obovate with a rounded to acute base to more or less rotund petals with a clawed base; reduction in stamen number from eight fertile stamens to four fertile stamens; change in anther shape from elongate and subulate or rostrate with a small apical pore to ovoid or subrotund with a broad ventrally or dorsally inclined apical pore; and modification of capsule shape from essentially globose with a rounded apex to laterally compressed with a bilobed or notched apex. Species constituting the first diverging lineage in our cladogram suggest a possible Brazilian Planalto origin for the genus. Pathways to northward migration were opened via large areas of continuous savanna vegetation across the Amazon Basin that connected the Brazilian and Guayana Shields during climatic fluctuations of the Pleistocene. In a less likely alternative, the distribution of Siphanthera can be accounted for by vicariance of a widespread ancestor that spanned the Brazilian and Guayana Shields. In this scenario, the taxa that branch off from the first diverging clade in our phylogenetic tree could represent a geographic sequence of differentiation from the widespread ancestor and not a series of dispersal events. Present-day rain forest dominance of the Amazon Basin with its few and scattered savanna islands has largely isolated northern and southern populations of Siphanthera and appears to explain the prevailing bicentric concentration of species on the South American continent (publisher's description.
Download or read book Ecology And Evolution Of Plant Reproduction written by Robert Edward Wyatt and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tremendous progress has been made during the past decade in the burgeoning field of plant reproductive biology. A number of quantitative and technical breakthroughs, such as horizontal starch-gel electrophoresis, have resulted in a revolution in our thinking. The study of breeding systems, which used to be marked by a rather static focus on pollination and self-incompatibility, has been transformed by dynamic models of transitional pathways, and investigators are looking not only into genetic factors but ecological ones as well. Workers in the field have recently produced detailed accounts of mating success and the relative fitness of plants as male and female parents, thus testing the applicability of sexual selection theory to plants. Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction surveys recent advances in the field of plant reproductive biology and identifies fruitful avenues for future research. The contributors are well known in the fields of morphology, systematics, genetics, cell biology, and ecology, representing the full spectrum of approaches that contribute vigor to this emerging field. This new work will benefit professionals and graduate students in plant science and plant breeding, evolutionary ecology, genetics, and reproductive biology.
Download or read book Plant Life Histories written by J. Silverstown and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phylogenetic perspectives; Reproductive traits; Seeds; Recruitment and growth; Interactions.
Download or read book Aquatic Dicotyledons of North America written by Donald H. Les and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles a wealth of information on the natural history, ecology, and systematics of North American aquatic flowering plants by providing a comprehensive overview of the biology of over 1000 species in more than 300 genera. It provides information from numerous sources in primary literature, herbarium databases, and other references.
Download or read book Monocots written by David A. Morrison and published by Csiro. This book was released on 2000 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monocots: Systematics and Evolution presents leading work from around the world on non-grass monocotyledons and includes reviews and current research into their comparative biology, phylogeny and classification. The papers are based on presentations at the Second International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons, Monocots II, held in Sydney, Australia in late 1998. Many were subsequently updated or extended to take into account new information. All 72 papers have been peer-reviewed.
