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Author : W. John Kress
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book published on the occasion of exhibition at Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 2009.
Author : W. John Kress
Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Botanical artists
ISBN : 9781842464175
This beautiful mix of artand science offers abreathtaking look at theway that contemporaryscientific discoveries arechanging ourunderstanding of plantsand plant evolution. 136botanical paintings fromthe Shirley SherwoodCollection, by 84 artists, cover 50 orders of plants in118 families, and a total of 133 species, providing asweeping overview of the evolution of plants onearth. The paintings display a sampling of the livingworld from fungi to daisies, including algae, mosses,ferns, conifers and flowering plants, arranged in themost up to date evolutionary sequence, determinedby recent DNA analysis.The text places each artist's observations in thecontext of modern plant classification, providingreaders with a new understanding of the complexinterrelationships between plant species, and enhancing their appreciation of the botanical artist'sability to portray the delicate beauty of nature.
Author : Karl J. Niklas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 022634228X
Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively make up the most morphologically, physiologically, and ecologically diverse group of organisms on earth, books on evolution instead tend to focus on animals. This organismal bias has led to an incomplete and often erroneous understanding of evolutionary theory. Because plants grow and reproduce differently than animals, they have evolved differently, and generally accepted evolutionary views—as, for example, the standard models of speciation—often fail to hold when applied to them. Tapping such wide-ranging topics as genetics, gene regulatory networks, phenotype mapping, and multicellularity, as well as paleobotany, Karl J. Niklas’s Plant Evolution offers fresh insight into these differences. Following up on his landmark book The Evolutionary Biology of Plants—in which he drew on cutting-edge computer simulations that used plants as models to illuminate key evolutionary theories—Niklas incorporates data from more than a decade of new research in the flourishing field of molecular biology, conveying not only why the study of evolution is so important, but also why the study of plants is essential to our understanding of evolutionary processes. Niklas shows us that investigating the intricacies of plant development, the diversification of early vascular land plants, and larger patterns in plant evolution is not just a botanical pursuit: it is vital to our comprehension of the history of all life on this green planet.
Author : Chris Thorogood
Publisher : Happy Yak
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0711261261
This beautifully illustrated book follows the amazing story of plant evolution, from the first plants arriving on a dark and lifeless planet to the colorful—often weird and wonderful—world of today’s varied and vibrant plant life.
Author : Lorentz C. Pearson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 1995-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780849324833
This exciting new textbook examines the concepts of evolution as the underlying cause of the rich diversity of life on earth-and our danger of losing that rich diversity. Written as a college textbook, The Diversity and Evolution of Plants introduces the great variety of life during past ages, manifested by the fossil record, using a new natural classification system. It begins in the Proterozoic Era, when bacteria and bluegreen algae first appeared, and continues through the explosions of new marine forms in the Helikian and Hadrynian Periods, land plants in the Devonian, and flowering plants in the Cretaceous. Following an introduction, the three subkingdoms of plants are discussed. Each chapter covers one of the eleven divisions of plants and begins with an interesting vignette of a plant typical of that division. A section on each of the classes within the division follows. Each section describes where the groups of plants are found and their distinguishing features. Discussions in each section include phylogeny and classification, general morphology, and physiology, ecological significance, economic uses, and potential for research. Suggested readings and student exercises are found at the end of each chapter.
Author : Kathy Willis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 019929223X
Blends evidence from the fossil record and data from biomolecular studies to tell the story of plant evolution from the earliest forms of life to the present day. Its straightforward explanations and clear illustrations provide the most accessible introduction to plant evolution available.
Author : Victor Rico-Gray
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226713547
Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their evolutionary success to an array of interspecific interactions—such as pollination, seed dispersal, and herbivory—that have helped to shape their great diversity. The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions brings together findings from the scientific literature on the coevolution of ants and plants to provide a better understanding of the unparalleled success of these two remarkable groups, of interspecific interactions in general, and ultimately of terrestrial biological communities. The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions synthesizes the dynamics of ant-plant interactions, including the sources of variation in their outcomes. Victor Rico-Gray and Paulo S. Oliveira capture both the emerging appreciation of the importance of these interactions within ecosystems and the developing approaches that place studies of these interactions into a broader ecological and evolutionary context. The collaboration of two internationally renowned scientists, The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions will become a standard reference for understanding the complex interactions between these two taxa.
Author : K. J. Willis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2002-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198500650
This is a broad but provocative examination of the evolution of plants from the earliest forms of life to the development of our present flora. Taking a fresh, modern approach to a subject often treated very stuffily, the book incorporates many recent studies on the morphological evolution of plants, enlivens the subject with current research on ancient DNA and other biomolecular markers, and places plant evolution in the context of climate change and mass extinction. Also includes special Biome Maps, showing the flora on the Earth's surface at different geological ages. Written for a non-specialist audience.
Author : Robert S. Fritz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226924858
Far from being passive elements in the landscape, plants have developed many sophisticated chemical and mechanical means of deterring organisms that seek to prey on them. This volume draws together research from ecology, evolution, agronomy, and plant pathology to produce an ecological genetics perspective on plant resistance in both natural and agricultural systems. By emphasizing the ecological and evolutionary basis of resistance, the book makes an important contribution to the study of how phytophages and plants coevolve. Plant Resistance to Herbivores and Pathogens not only reviews the literature pertaining to plant resistance from a number of traditionally separate fields but also examines significant questions that will drive future research. Among the topics explored are selection for resistance in plants and for virulence in phytophages; methods for studying natural variation in plant resistance; the factors that maintain intraspecific variation in resistance; and the ecological consequences of within-population genetic variation for herbivorous insects and fungal pathogens. "A comprehensive review of the theory and information on a large, rapidly growing, and important subject."—Douglas J. Futuyma, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Author : Jean H. Langenheim
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780881925746
Few people are aware of the great diversity of resin-producing plants or the remarkable roles resins play in the lives of plants and people. Plant Resins tells the whole story about these fascinating plant products.