This introduction to plant taxonomy teaches basic botanical facts as applied to vascular plants, relating these facts to systematic principles and to contemporary issues. World-wide plant families are covered.
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This third edition of Contemporary Plant Systematics combines the latest Photo Atlas of Vascular Plants CD (included free) with updated literature and additional plant family representations.
Contemporary Plant Systematics is packed with illustrations—perfect for a broad-view, beginning text and highly functional as a reference book for basic plant systematics. It gives students and serious amateur gardener/botanists—wherever they may live in the world—a sufficient botanical understanding of vascular plants. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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For over 35 years, I have taught a basic course in systematic botany to undergraduate students, both majors and non-majors alike. One of the exercises undertaken by the students each year, toward the end of the course, is to critique a published text in plant systematics. Some of the students’ comments have been as follows: "Good text but too large for one term"; "Poorly illustrated"; "Most boring and sleep provoking to read"; "Fine for the basic terminology, but doesn’t go far enough"; "Only includes flowering plants"; "Gives basic information, but lacks contemporary material from the taxonomic field"; Doesn’t incorporate current contemporary methods"; "No color"; "Why not write a text yourself?"
Reflecting on the students’ comments, I realized that perhaps they were right. Why not write a well-illustrated, broad-view, beginning text that would give the students, wherever they may live in the world, sufficient botanical understanding of vascular plants that would utilize the changing world of global information?
Contemporary Plant Systematics, 3rd ed., has been updated for the undergraduate student and serious amateur gardener/botanist who has taken at least a beginning biology course in high school or college.
The text has been written to (1) teach basic botanical contemporary information as applied to vascular plants, (2) relate these facts to systematic principles, (3) show how systematic principles are important to contemporary botanical and environmental issues from a global perspective, and (4) allow the student access to digitized, colorful, botanical images. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This book is an excellent introduction with a lot of valuable information about the study of botany. It is useful to both beginners and people with extensive botanical knowledge. It is definitely not light reading, but an excellent reference for anyone who spends a lot of time concerning themselves with all types of plants. The botanical glossary, diagrams, and family descriptions are particulary useful. This also makes a great companion to a technical botanical identification book. There is also an excellent history of botany but the straightforward explantions of the vast language of botany makes it super handy.
I purchased it for a two-hundred level college botany course and hope to continue to use it as a professional.
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