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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195057139
ISBN-139780195057133
eBay Product ID (ePID)89377
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFlora of North America : North of Mexico: Introduction
Publication Year1993
SubjectLife Sciences / Botany
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaScience
AuthorFlora of North America Editorial Committee
SeriesFlora of North America Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight55.4 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width11.2 in
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Reviews"Clear, well-organized, and thoroughly referenced.... exceptional....an invaluable regional reference. Highly recommended." --Choice, "What you get here is a lot more than what you see.... authoritative. This is a dictionary of plant species, the working vocabulary of plant biodiversity, as essential to its knowing, productive users as any big dictionary." --Scientific American, "The first comprehensive description of the plants growing generally north of Mexico....represents the culmination of 11 years of work....a milestone." --College and Research Libraries News, "A massive ten-year effort, coordinated by the Missouri Botanical Gardens and involving the collaboration of American and Canadian botanical taxonomists and institutions, finally bears fruit with the simultaneous publication of the first two volumes of a projected 14-volume catalog....Althoughregional field guides and floras with local range maps and photographs will continue to flourish, these handsomely bound and typeset volumes identifying and detailing the complete continental flora north of Mexico will be the definitive work well into the next century. For large public and academiclibraries." --Library Journal, "Should become a well-thumbed reference work not only for botanists but also average gardeners and amateur naturalists." --The Phoenix Gazette, "Likely to be regarded as a major event in botany. Its volumes provide more authoritative and useful treatments than do the regional accounts, which hitherto have been the only available source for scientists, conservationists, land managers, agriculturalists, foresters, prospectors formedicinal plants and amateur naturalists." --The New York Times, "By any standard these two volumes represent a monumental achievement ofmany hands and a giant first step toward an even more monumental goal, indeed,the dream of two centuries. . . . liberally illustrated with helpful graphicsand pictures. These attractive volumes are so well edited and produced . . . awatershed of centuries in North American floristics. The work is already alandmark." --Stanwyn G. Shetler (Smithsonian Institution), American Society ofPlant Taxonomists, "A massive ten-year effort, coordinated by the Missouri Botanical Gardens and involving the collaboration of American and Canadian botanical taxonomists and institutions, finally bears fruit with the simultaneous publication of the first two volumes of a projected 14-volume catalog....Although regional field guides and floras with local range maps and photographs will continue to flourish, these handsomely bound and typeset volumes identifying and detailing the complete continental flora north of Mexico will be the definitive work well into the next century. For large public and academic libraries." --Library Journal "I highly recommend this new series for the serious gardener or amateur naturalist. ...I'll bet this would be great for the cross-country family vacation: Imagine the kids in the back of the wagon arguing over which species of pine was growing along the interstate. --Tony Avent, The News &Observer, Raleigh, NC "Likely to be regarded as a major event in botany. Its volumes provide more authoritative and useful treatments than do the regional accounts, which hitherto have been the only available source for scientists, conservationists, land managers, agriculturalists, foresters, prospectors for medicinal plants and amateur naturalists." --The New York Times "I'm delighted with Volume 1....lively and informative essays....an encyclopedia of our present knowledge of the flora of our continent....beautifully illustrated with maps, charts, historic botanical drawings. Excellent photographs....contains a very useful summary of major plants used by North American native peoples....an up-to-the-moment compendium of our knowledge....for a number of years to come, this will be an important reference work for all American botanists." --Bulletin of the Native Plant Society of Oregon "Should become a well-thumbed reference work not only for botanists but also average gardeners and amateur naturalists." --The Phoenix Gazette "The first comprehensive description of the plants growing generally north of Mexico....represents the culmination of 11 years of work....a milestone." --College and Research Libraries News "Concise, straightforward, and consistent in format from group to group." --Robert Ornduff, Science "Clear, well-organized, and thoroughly referenced.... exceptional....an invaluable regional reference. Highly recommended." --Choice "Beautifully bound, library quality work. For anyone who ever wanted a reference on the plants of North America, this is the book of our dreams....invaluable to researchers in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and biology, and promises to be the standard reference for environmental management." --Gaillardia, The Oklahoma Native Plant Society Newsletter "What you get here is a lot more than what you see.... authoritative. This is a dictionary of plant species, the working vocabulary of plant biodiversity, as essential to its knowing, productive users as any big dictionary." --Scientific American, "Beautifully bound, library quality work. For anyone who ever wanted a reference on the plants of North America, this is the book of our dreams....invaluable to researchers in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and biology, and promises to be the standard reference for environmentalmanagement." --Gaillardia, The Oklahoma Native Plant Society Newsletter, I highly recommend this new series for the serious gardener or amateur naturalist. ...I'll bet this would be great for the cross-country family vacation: Imagine the kids in the back of the wagon arguing over which species of pine was grwoing along the interstate. -- Tony Avent, The News andObserver, Raleigh, NC|9780195057133|, "A massive ten-year effort, coordinated by the Missouri Botanical Gardens and involving the collaboration of American and Canadian botanical taxonomists and institutions, finally bears fruit with the simultaneous publication of the first two volumes of a projected 14-volume catalog....Although regional field guides and floras with local range maps and photographs will continue to flourish, these handsomely bound and typeset volumes identifying and detailing the complete continental flora north of Mexico will be the definitive work well into the next century. For large public and academic libraries." --Library Journal"I highly recommend this new series for the serious gardener or amateur naturalist. ...I'll bet this would be great for the cross-country family vacation: Imagine the kids in the back of the wagon arguing over which species of pine was growing along the interstate. -- Tony Avent, The News & Observer, Raleigh, NC"Likely to be regarded as a major event in botany. Its volumes provide more authoritative and useful treatments than do the regional accounts, which hitherto have been the only available source for scientists, conservationists, land managers, agriculturalists, foresters, prospectors for medicinal plants and amateur naturalists." --The New York Times"I'm delighted with Volume 1....lively and informative essays....an encyclopedia of our present knowledge of the flora of our continent....beautifully illustrated with maps, charts, historic botanical drawings. Excellent photographs....contains a very useful summary of major plants used by North American native peoples....an up-to-the-moment compendium of our knowledge....for a number of years to come, this will be an important reference work for all American botanists." --Bulletin of the Native Plant Society of Oregon"Should become a well-thumbed reference work not only for botanists but also average gardeners and amateur naturalists." --The Phoenix Gazette"The first comprehensive description of the plants growing generally north of Mexico....represents the culmination of 11 years of work....a milestone." --College and Research Libraries News"Concise, straightforward, and consistent in format from group to group." --Robert Ornduff, Science"Clear, well-organized, and thoroughly referenced.... exceptional....an invaluable regional reference. Highly recommended." --Choice"Beautifully bound, library quality work. For anyone who ever wanted a reference on the plants of North America, this is the book of our dreams....invaluable to researchers in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and biology, and promises to be the standard reference for environmental management." --Gaillardia, The Oklahoma Native Plant Society Newsletter"What you get here is a lot more than what you see.... authoritative. This is a dictionary of plant species, the working vocabulary of plant biodiversity, as essential to its knowing, productive users as any big dictionary." --Scientific American, "The first comprehensive description of the plants growing generally northof Mexico. . . . represents the culmination of 11 years of work . . . amilestone." --College and Research Libraries News, "I'm delighted with Volume 1....lively and informative essays....an encyclopedia of our present knowledge of the flora of our continent....beautifully illustrated with maps, charts, historic botanical drawings. Excellent photographs....contains a very useful summary of major plants used byNorth American native peoples....an up-to-the-moment compendium of our knowledge....for a number of years to come, this will be an important reference work for all American botanists." --Bulletin of the Native Plant Society of Oregon, "A massive ten-year effort, coordinated by the Missouri Botanical Gardens and involving the collaboration of American and Canadian botanical taxonomists and institutions, finally bears fruit with the simultaneous publication of the first two volumes of a projected 14-volume catalog....Although regional field guides and floras with local range maps and photographs will continue to flourish, these handsomely bound and typeset volumes identifying and detailing the complete continental flora north of Mexico will be the definitive work well into the next century. For large public and academic libraries." --Library Journal "I highly recommend this new series for the serious gardener or amateur naturalist. ...I'll bet this would be great for the cross-country family vacation: Imagine the kids in the back of the wagon arguing over which species of pine was growing along the interstate. -- Tony Avent, The News & Observer, Raleigh, NC "Likely to be regarded as a major event in botany. Its volumes provide more authoritative and useful treatments than do the regional accounts, which hitherto have been the only available source for scientists, conservationists, land managers, agriculturalists, foresters, prospectors for medicinal plants and amateur naturalists." --The New York Times "I'm delighted with Volume 1....lively and informative essays....an encyclopedia of our present knowledge of the flora of our continent....beautifully illustrated with maps, charts, historic botanical drawings. Excellent photographs....contains a very useful summary of major plants used by North American native peoples....an up-to-the-moment compendium of our knowledge....for a number of years to come, this will be an important reference work for all American botanists." --Bulletin of the Native Plant Society of Oregon "Should become a well-thumbed reference work not only for botanists but also average gardeners and amateur naturalists." --The Phoenix Gazette "The first comprehensive description of the plants growing generally north of Mexico....represents the culmination of 11 years of work....a milestone." --College and Research Libraries News "Concise, straightforward, and consistent in format from group to group." --Robert Ornduff, Science "Clear, well-organized, and thoroughly referenced.... exceptional....an invaluable regional reference. Highly recommended." --Choice "Beautifully bound, library quality work. For anyone who ever wanted a reference on the plants of North America, this is the book of our dreams....invaluable to researchers in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and biology, and promises to be the standard reference for environmental management." --Gaillardia, The Oklahoma Native Plant Society Newsletter "What you get here is a lot more than what you see.... authoritative. This is a dictionary of plant species, the working vocabulary of plant biodiversity, as essential to its knowing, productive users as any big dictionary." --Scientific American
Series Volume NumberVol. 1
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Volume NumberVol. 1
Table Of ContentForewordIntroduction: History of the Flora of North America ProjectPART I: Physical Setting1. Climate and Physiography2. SoilsPART II: Vegetation and Climates of the Past3. History of the Vegetation: Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and Tertiary4. Paleoclimates, Paleovegetation, and Paleofloras during the Late QuaternaryPART III: Contemporary Vegetation and Phytogeography5. Vegetation6. PhytogeographyPART IV: Humankind and the Flora7. Taxonomic Botany and Floristics8. Weeds9. Ethnobotany and Economic Botany10. Plant ConservationPART V: Classifications and Classification Systems11. Concepts of Species and Genera12. Pteridophytes13. Gymnosperms14. A Commentary on the General System of Classification of Flowering Plants15. Flowering Plant Families: An OverviewLiterature CitedIndex
SynopsisThe Flora of North America will be a unique compendium of taxonomic information about the more than 17,000 species of plants that grow in the United States and Canada. This introductory volume presents information on the physical and biological factors that have affected the evolution and distribution of plant life throughout North America. Essays on such topics as geography, paleofloristics, and human impact are written to summarize current knowledge and to provide access to the relevant literature. The almost 100 drawings that accompany the introductory essays were taken from various 19th and 20th century works. They were chosen in part to illustrate plants mentioned within the text and in part as historical examples of the style and quality of botanical illustration from an earlier era to the present. Future volumes of Flora of North America will contain full descriptions of each species, along with information about the species' habitat, geographical range, and basic ecology., To be published in 14 volumes over the next 12 years, this long-awaited synoptic compendium represents the first and only comprehensive taxonomic guide to the extraordinary diversity of plant life blanketing our continent north of Mexico--including Greenland and the St. Pierre and Miquelon islands. The collaborative effort of more than 30 major U.S. and Canadian botanical institutions, it revises and synthesizes literally thousands of floristic monographs and regional floras published over the last three centuries. But more than that, it distills the original herbarium, laboratory, and field work of hundreds of contributors--all of them leading botanists and taxonomic authorities who have joined forces to develop this century's premier tool for identifying, understanding, and conserving North America's priceless floristic heritage. Concise, easy to use, and beautifully bound and illustrated, Flora of North America is an indispensable working resource for botanists, conservationists, ecologists, agronomists, foresters, range and land managers, horticulturists, --anyone with a serious interest in the distribution, habitat, morphology, and survival of the wide-ranging plant life around us. Each of its taxonomic volumes brings together the full spectrum of critical botanical data, from basic descriptions to chromosome numbers. The entries also correct erroneous information, qualify misapplied variant names, and note known hybridizations. Findings derived from recent experimental work and from numerical taxonomy are incorporated, and to assure accuracy, these data have been extensively reviewed and tested by cooperating taxonomic specialists. Volume 1 consists of a series of introductory essays by nearly two dozen noted botanical authorities. Among the topics covered are the transformation of North American plant life since the end of the Mesozoic era some 70 million years ago; the influence of geographic, climatic, and soil factors; the impact of human cultivation; great naturalists and their contributions to botany and floristics since the age of Columbus; and approaches to plant classification, with particular attention to the evolutionarily unique pteridophytes and gymnosperms that are covered in Volume 2., To be published in 14 volumes over the next 12 years, this long-awaited synoptic compendium represents the first and only comprehensive taxonomic guide to the extraordinary diversity of plant life blanketing our continent north of Mexico--including Greenland and the St. Pierre and Miquelon islands. The collaborative effort of more than 30 major U.S. and Canadian botanical institutions, it revises and synthesizes literally thousands of floristic monographs and regional floras published over the last three centuries. But more than that, it distills the original herbarium, laboratory, and field work of hundreds of contributors--all of them leading botanists and taxonomic authorities who have joined forces to develop this century's premier tool for identifying, understanding, and conserving North America's priceless floristic heritage. Concise, easy to use, and beautifully bound and illustrated, Flora of North America is an indispensable working resource for botanists, conservationists, ecologists, agronomists, foresters, range and land managers, horticulturists,--anyone with a serious interest in the distribution, habitat, morphology, and survival of the wide-ranging plant life around us. Each of its taxonomic volumes brings together the full spectrum of critical botanical data, from basic descriptions to chromosome numbers. The entries also correct erroneous information, qualify misapplied variant names, and note known hybridizations. Findings derived from recent experimental work and from numerical taxonomy are incorporated, and to assure accuracy, these data have been extensively reviewed and tested by cooperating taxonomic specialists. Volume 1 consists of a series of introductory essays by nearly two dozen noted botanical authorities. Among the topics covered are the transformation of North American plant life since the end of the Mesozoic era some 70 million years ago; the influence of geographic, climatic, and soil factors; the impact of human cultivation; great naturalists and their contributions to botany and floristics since the age of Columbus; and approaches to plant classification, with particular attention to the evolutionarily unique pteridophytes and gymnosperms that are covered in Volume 2., To be published in 14 volumes over the next 12 years, The Flora of North America is a unique working resource of taxonomic information to the extraordinary diversity of plant life in the United States and Canada, an area blanketing the continent north of Mexico - including Greenland and the St. Pierre and Miquelon islands. More than 20,000 plant species have been systematically surveyed and classified for this single work which will be essential for anyone with an interest in the distribution, habitat, morphology, and survival of the wide-ranging plant life in the region. Flora of North America provides a single dependable information resource for protecting rare and endangered species, developing effective plant breeding programmes, conducting biological weed control, and launching and administering other forward-thinking plant management projects in the public and private sector alike. And with ongoing support from its permanent database, it's destined to remain an invaluable botanical reference into the next century and beyond.This introductory volume comprises a unique series of introductory essays that establish a firm foundation for the flora. Information is given on the physical and biological factors that have affected the evolution and distribution of plant life of North America since the end of the Mesozoic era some 70 million years ago.Flora of North America DatabaseFlora of North America has a specially designed computer database that will store, retrieve, search, and update all the taxonomic information published in the flora's 14 original hardcover volumes.
LC Classification NumberQK110.F55 1993
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