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Author : Bassett Maguire
Publisher : New York Botanical Garden Press
ISBN 13 : 9780893270308
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Botany of the Guayana Highland written by Bassett Maguire and published by New York Botanical Garden Press. This book was released on 1953-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (714 download)
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Author : Bassett Maguire
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Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Botany of the Guayana Highland written by Bassett Maguire and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bassett Maguire
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ISBN 13 : 9781258091132
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Botany of the Guayana Highland, Part 1 written by Bassett Maguire and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Armen Takhtajan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402096097
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Flowering Plants written by Armen Takhtajan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armen Takhtajan is among the greatest authorities in the world on the evolution of plants. This book culminates almost sixty years of the scientist's research of the origin and classification of the flowering plants. It presents a continuation of Dr. Takhtajan’s earlier publications including “Systema Magnoliophytorum” (1987), (in Russian), and “Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants” (1997), (in English). In his latest book, the author presents a concise and significantly revised system of plant classification (‘Takhtajan system’) based on the most recent studies in plant morphology, embryology, phytochemistry, cytology, molecular biology and palynology. Flowering plants are divided into two classes: class Magnoliopsida (or Dicotyledons) includes 8 subclasses, 126 orders, c. 440 families, almost 10,500 genera, and no less than 195,000 species; and class Liliopsida (or Monocotyledons) includes 4 subclasses, 31 orders, 120 families, more than 3,000 genera, and about 65,000 species.This book contains a detailed description of plant orders, and descriptive keys to plant families providing characteristic features of the families and their differences.
Author : David G. Frodin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139428651
Total Pages : 1136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (286 download)
Download or read book Guide to Standard Floras of the World written by David G. Frodin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2001 book provides a selective annotated bibliography of the principal floras and related works of inventory for vascular plants. The second edition was completely updated and expanded to take into account the substantial literature of the late twentieth century, and features a more fully developed review of the history of floristic documentation. The works covered are principally specialist publications such as floras, checklists, distribution atlases, systematic iconographies and enumerations or catalogues, although a relatively few more popularly oriented books are also included. The Guide is organised in ten geographical divisions, with these successively divided into regions and units, each of which is prefaced with a historical review of floristic studies. In addition to the bibliography, the book includes general chapters on botanical bibliography, the history of floras, and general principles and current trends, plus an appendix on bibliographic searching, a lexicon of serial abbreviations, and author and geographical indexes.
Author : Stewart McPherson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lost Worlds of the Guiana Highlands written by Stewart McPherson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tablelands of the Guiana Highlands are among the most spectacular yet least explored mountains of our world. Each is an immense sandstone plateau known locally as a `tepui' that is encircled on all sides by gigantic vertical cliffs up to 1,000 metres tall. The summits of these unique mountains have remained isolated for millions of years, and today harbour plants, animals and landscapes that occur nowhere else on Earth. This work examines the story of the discovery and exploration of these remarkable mountains and considers the unique plants, animals and landscapes atop of these mysterious lost worlds. The introductory chapters of Lost Worlds outline the remarkable processes that led to the formation of the tepuis of the Guiana Highlands. The following chapter, The Discovery and Exploration of the Guiana Highlands, first reviews the Amerindian presence around, and perceptions of, the tepuis prior to the arrival of Europeans, and then moves to the discovery and description of these tablelands by Europeans from the 16th Century to the exploration of Mount Roraima early in the 20th Century. The next chapter, Some Strange Country of Nightmares provides an overview of the remarkable physical landscape of the summits of the tepuis with a focus on some of the most surprising geological features that are found on the plateau tops and in the nearby lowlands. The following chapter, Islands Above the Clouds, examines the unique evolutionary and ecological processes that have shaped and now give character to the biological landscapes of the tepui summits. The next chapter, Life Above the Clouds, looks at the remarkable diversity of organisms found on the summits of the tepuis and the diverse ways in which plants and animals have adapted to the demanding environmental conditions that occur in these highland environments. The final chapter, As a New Century Begins, reviews the current conservation and management issues relating to the future of Guiana. Lost worlds is the first and only comprehensive study of the remarkable natural history of the tepuis of the Guiana Highlands. The strengths of this book include (1) its uniquely detailed content; (2) the 248 spectacular figures including breath taking images, maps, historical illustrations and photo (3) the very first published images of several species of tepui dwelling plants and animals in their natural habitats. Lost Worlds is up-to-date, comprehensive, focused, well illustrated, and visually beautiful. It is technically written yet is accessible to specialist and non-specialist audiences and will be a valued source of information for all interested in the natural history of the remarkable tablelands of the Guiana!
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Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Smithsonian Contributions to Botany written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Cronquist
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231038805
Total Pages : 1288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (388 download)
Download or read book An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants written by Arthur Cronquist and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Natural History
Author : William R. Buck
Publisher : New York Botanical Garden Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bassett Maguire Festschrift written by William R. Buck and published by New York Botanical Garden Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seldom in the history of botany has there been such a fortuitous union of man, mission, & institution as found in Basset Maguire & his half- century of contributions to systematic botany. A chronological account is given for the highlights of his life & career. Colleagues & collaborators also contribute original scientific papers.
Author : Lim T. K.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400725337
Total Pages : 917 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Edible Medicinal And Non Medicinal Plants written by Lim T. K. and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues as volume 3 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers edible fruits/seeds used fresh or processed, as vegetables, spices, stimulants, edible oils and beverages. It encompasses species from the following families: Ginkgoaceae, Gnetaceae, Juglandaceae, Lauraceae, Lecythidaceae, Magnoliaceae, Malpighiaceae, Malvaceae, Marantaceae, Meliaceae, Moraceae, Moringaceae, Muntigiaceae, Musaceae, Myristicaceae and Myrtaceae. This work will be of significant interest to scientists, researchers, medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, agriculturists, botanists, conservationists, lecturers, students and the general public. Topics covered include: taxonomy; common/English and vernacular names; origin and distribution; agroecology; edible plant parts and uses; botany; nutritive and pharmacological properties, medicinal uses and research findings; nonedible uses; and selected references.
Author : National Science Foundation (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Annual Report for Fiscal Year ... written by National Science Foundation (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aaron M. Ellison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198779844
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Carnivorous Plants written by Aaron M. Ellison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carnivorous plants have fascinated botanists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists, physiologists, developmental biologists, anatomists, horticulturalists, and the general public for centuries. Charles Darwin was the first scientist to demonstrate experimentally that some plants could actually attract, kill, digest, and absorb nutrients from insect prey; his book Insectivorous Plants (1875) remains a widely-cited classic. Since then, many movies and plays, short stories, novels, coffee-table picture books, and popular books on the cultivation of carnivorous plants have been produced. However, all of these widely read products depend on accurate scientific information, and most of them have repeated and recycled data from just three comprehensive, but now long out of date, scientific monographs. The field has evolved and changed dramatically in the nearly 30 years since the last of these books was published, and thousands of scientific papers on carnivorous plants have appeared in the academic journal literature. In response, Ellison and Adamec have assembled the world's leading experts to provide a truly modern synthesis. They examine every aspect of physiology, biochemistry, genomics, ecology, and evolution of these remarkable plants, culminating in a description of the serious threats they now face from over-collection, poaching, habitat loss, and climatic change which directly threaten their habitats and continued persistence in them.
Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351651498
Total Pages : 3591 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book CRC World Dictionary of Palms written by Umberto Quattrocchi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 3591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Foreword Umberto Quattrocchi has brought us some amazing and useful works through the various dictionaries that he has compiled. This time it is for two very important plant families the palms and the cycads that are synthesized here in these two volumes. Each entry is fascinating not just for the botany and full nomenclature of the plant species but for all the associated uses, folklore and interactions with other organisms. ...These entries are fascinating glimpses of natural history. ... Botanists, conservationists, ethnobotanists, anthropologists, geographers, bird watchers, naturalists, historians and those of many other disciplines will find these volumes a most valuable and useful resource. It is the sort of book that will be in frequent use in my library. ----- Professor Sir Ghillean Prance FRS, VMH, Former Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Following the same format as Umberto Quattrocchi’s highly praised and well-used previous works, The CRC World Dictionary of Palms: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology brings together the vast and scattered literature on palms and cycads to provide better access to information on these economically important plants. Each genus and species has a detailed morphological description and includes a list of synonyms and vernacular names in many languages. Bibliographies accompany each entry which are comprehensive, up-to-date and multi-lingual. The detailed information for every entry on habitats, economic uses, historical and biographical data, botanical exploration, and linguistics will be useful for any library involved with botany, herbal medicine, pharmacognosy, medicinal and natural product chemistry, ecology, ethnobotany, systematics, general plant science, agriculture or horticulture. Umberto Quattrocchi is the author of the bestselling CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, winner of the prestigious Hanbury Botanical Garden Award. His most recent multi-volume work, CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants, received strong praise as being "... an unparalleled starting place—a tool of first resort for any thoughtful researcher. Quattrocchi and CRC have delivered a dictionary like no other, a learned finger pointing in the right direction." —John de la Parra, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from Economic Botany, Vol. 68, 2014
Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351457128
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names written by Umberto Quattrocchi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference covering over 22,000 genre of plants and thousands of species. Included are the botanical names, synonyms, homonyms, and the vernacular and trade names of the commonly accepted generic names.
Author : M.M. Grandtner
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123969549
Total Pages : 1171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America written by M.M. Grandtner and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-09-21 with total page 1171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionary of South American Trees provides a single-source reference for botanists, biologists, ecologists, and climatologists on the many native trees in South America. The index lets readers find a tree in four languages, by its common name, or abbreviation, followed by taxonomy that includes common uses for each part of the tree. Using this information, scientists and students can identify and classify plants, their growth structure and environment, the uses of their products, and alternative options with similar characteristics. - Complete coverage of all native South American trees—the only single-source reference for botanists, biologists, ecologists and climatologists working in this diverse and changing region - Includes taxonomy at genera, species, sub-species, and varietal levels, providing information from the most basic level up and allowing readers to identify their subjects using numerous criteria - Indicates Latin, English, French, and Spanish names as well as common names and abbreviations, facilitating accurate and efficient identification - Provides growth information, climatology, ecology and uses for the tree to provide insight into each tree as well as for comparative purposes when seeking similar tree-based resources
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Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae) written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
