ISBN: 0195127293, 9780195127294
Authors: Donald A. Levin,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Keywords: series, ecology, evolution, oxford, species, expansion, demise, plant, origin
Pages: 240
Published: 2000-05-04
Category: Botany, Biological Sciences, Science,
List Price: 59.50 USD

Combining insights from observation, experimentation, and theory, The Origin, Expansion, and Demise of Plant Species offers a broad overview of species as dynamic entities that arise, have unique evolutionary histories, and ultimately go extinct. It ......

ISBN: 0643058192, 9780643058194
Authors: N. Marcar, et Al,
Publisher: Csiro Publishing
Keywords: species, australia, native, selecting, saltland, guide, trees
Pages: 72
Published: 1996-12-31
Category: Botany, Biological Sciences, Science,
List Price: Unknown

This volume describes a range of species suitable for saline soils. It covers issues such as: how trees deal with saline soil, their susceptibility to insect pests, where to plant trees and how best to establish them. It provides detailed decriptions......

ISBN: 080932380X, 9780809323807
Authors: Professor Emeritus Robert H. Mohlenbrock,
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: pigweeds, goosefoots, pinks, illustrated, illinois, flora, purslanes, cacti, pokeweeds, plants, four, clocks, carpetweeds, flowering
Pages: 296
Published: 2001-07-18
Category: Botany, Biological Sciences, Science,
List Price: 65.00 USD

Robert H. Mohlenbrock provides a definitive account of the pokeweed, four-o'clock, carpetweed, cactus, purslane, goosefoot, pigweed, and pink families in Illinois. ......

ISBN: 0801486211, 9780801486210
Authors: Conley K. Mcmullen,
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: galapagos, plants, flowering
Pages: 370
Published: 1999-12
Category: Botany, Biological Sciences, Science,
List Price: 36.95 USD

• Rating: 80%

The Galpagos are home to a wide-ranging assortment of unusual plants and animals. The islands became famous as the site of Charles Darwin's research leading to his theory of evolution by natural selection, and their magnificent flora and fauna contin......

ISBN: 0521402913, 9780521402910
Authors: V. A. Vakhrameev, norman F. Hughes, ju V. Litvinov,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: earth, climates, floras, cretaceous, jurassic
Pages: 340
Published: 1991-07-26
Category: Botany, Biological Sciences, Science,
List Price: 95.00 USD

Originally published by Cambridge in 1991, this book is a translation of a unique Russian study of fossil plant distributions in the Jurassic and Cretaceous world. The core of the work is the description and assessment of floras of the USSR, China an......

ISBN: 0736896201, 9780736896207
Authors: Vijaya Khisty Bodach,
Publisher: Capstone Press
Keywords: parts, series, plant, plus, pebble, fruits
Pages: 24
Published: 2007-01-01
Category: Botany, Science, Nature & How It Works, Children's
List Price: 6.95 USD

Simple text and photographs presents the fruit of plants, how they grow, and their uses.......

ISBN: 0757512143, 9780757512148
Authors: Walters Dirk, keil David J, walters Bonnie, murrel
Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing
Keywords: taxonomy, plant, vascular
Pages: 560
Published: 1020-09
Category: Botany, Biological Sciences, Science,
List Price: 91.20 USD

• Rating: 100%

Vascular Plant Taxonomy, Fifth Edition, by Dirk R. Walters, David J. Keil, and Zack F. Murrell, is designed to lead students throughthe world of plant taxonomy giving them a solid understanding of vegetative terminology, basic skills for data gatheri......

ISBN: 0851995152, 9780851995151
Authors: Robert J Henry,
Publisher: Cabi
Keywords: cabi, genotyping, plant
Pages: 344
Published: 2001-08-17
Category: Botany, Biological Sciences, Science,
List Price: 170.00 USD

Plant genotyping, or DNA fingerprinting of plants, is a technology that has matured and is poised for widespread practical application in the fields of breeding, commerce and research. This book examines the technologies available and their applicati......

ISBN: 0521653150, 9780521653152
Authors: Clive Anthony Stace,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: isles, british, flora, field
Pages: 758
Published: 1999-04-13
Category: Botany, Biological Sciences, Science,
List Price: 55.00 USD

Field Flora of the British Isles provides a portable, comprehensive guide for those wishing to identify plants growing in the wild in the British Isles. Based on the author's now standard work, New Flora of the British Isles (2nd edition, 1997), this......

ISBN: 084937488X, 9780849374883
Authors: Francisco Pugnaire, fernando Valladares,
Publisher: Crc Press
Keywords: soils, plants, environment, books, second, plant, ecology, functional
Pages: 744
Published: 2007-06-20
Category: Botany, Biological Sciences, Science,
List Price: 159.95 USD

Following in the footsteps of the successful first edition, Functional Plant Ecology, Second Edition remains the most authoritative resource in this multidisciplinary field. Extensively revised and updated, this book investigates plant structure and ......