Plant taxonomy : the systematic evaluation of comparative data /
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2009
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One. Principles of taxonomy. The meaning of classification.
- A few definitions.
- The relevance of systematics.
- The importance and universality of classification.
- Characters.
- The anatomy of classification and the artificial approach.
- Natural and phyletic approaches.
- The phenetic approach.
- The cladistic approach.
- Evaluations of the three major approaches and explicit phyletics.
- Concepts of categories.
- The taxonomic hierarchy.
- The species.
- The subspecies, variety, and form
- The genus.
- The family and higher categories.
- Part Two. Taxonomic data.
- Types of data.
- Morphology.
- Anatomy.
- Embryology.
- Palynology.
- Phytochemistry.
- Cytology and cytogenetics.
- Molecular biology.
- Genetics and population genetics.
- Reproductive biology.
- Ecology.
- The handling of data.
- The gathering and storage of data.
- The presentation of data.
- Epilogue.