Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes
Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes

Author: Tom A. Ranker

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9781107181496

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"With their team of contemporary scholars, the editors present a thorough coverage of fundamental topics necessary for obtaining an up-to-date understanding of the biology of ferns and lycophytes. The book is organized into major topics that build from the individual and its biochemistry and structure, to genetics and populations, to interactions among individuals and the conservation of species, and concludes with perspectives on evolutionary history and classification. Each chapter is organized to review past work, explore current questions, and suggest productive directions for continued discoveries about these fascinating groups of organisms. Written for upper undergraduates, graduates and academic researchers, Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes fills a major gap in biological, organism-level, evolutionary literature by providing a review of the biology and evolution of this important group of vascular land plants."--NHBS Environment Bookstore.

Current Advances in Fern Research
Current Advances in Fern Research

Author: Helena Fernández

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-03-24

Total Pages: 539

ISBN-13: 3319751034

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Ferns, collectively, represent an ancient species of vascular plant which has a direct connection to the beginning of life on Earth. Today they are valued for their ornamental appeal, environmental benefit or as sources of health benefiting metabolites. Current pteridology, the study of fern, encompasses a wide range of research activities including, but not limited to, plant physiology, stress tolerance, genetics and genomics. The goal of this book is to compile the most relevant research done with ferns during the last decade. It is organized into four parts: I, Biology and Biotechnology; II, Evolution and Conservation; III, Metabolism and Genetic Resources, and IV, Environment. Each section reveals the utilization of ferns as a tool to explore challenges unique to plant development and adaptation. This project represents our collective effort to raise the awareness of ferns as a model system to study higher plant functions. Among the distinctive features of our proposed book are: (i) a wide range of topics with contributing researchers from all around the world, and (ii) recent advances of theoretic and applied knowledge with implications to crop species of economic value.

Hawai'i's Ferns and Fern Allies
Hawai'i's Ferns and Fern Allies

Author: Daniel Dooley Palmer

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780824825225

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He includes information from Hawaiian folklore and mythology, describes uses of ferns by native Hawaiians, and updates Hawaiian common names. More than one hundred line drawings illustrate all 222 species, varieties, and forms, and some hybrids." "This well-researched and highly readable book will be enthusiastically received by amateur and professional naturalists, fern enthusiasts, and professional botanists."--BOOK JACKET.

Systematics and the Exploration of Life
Systematics and the Exploration of Life

Author: Philippe Grandcolas

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1786302659

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This book's aim is to obtain and organize knowledge about the diversity of living things. Their epistomological and methodological fundamentals are explained in the framework of the biology of evolution. The methods of construction and use of phylogenetic trees are presented as well as the classification and description of taxa with the nomenclature rules.

Working with Ferns
Working with Ferns

Author: Helena Fernández

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-11-11

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1441971629

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This well timed volume features a selection of chapters composed by experts in their respective fields. It covers a broad range of topics, from its fundamental biology to the fern’s population genetics and environmental and therapeutic applications.

Introduction to Plant Fossils
Introduction to Plant Fossils

Author: Christopher J. Cleal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-06-30

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781108705028

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Plant remains can preserve a critical part of history of life on Earth. While telling the fascinating evolutionary story of plants and vegetation across the last 500 million years, this book also crucially offers non-specialists a practical guide to studying, dealing with and interpreting plant fossils. It shows how various techniques can be used to reveal the secrets of plant fossils and how to identify common types, such as compressions and impressions. Incorporating the concepts of evolutionary floras, this second edition includes revised data on all main plant groups, the latest approaches to naming plant fossils using fossil-taxa and techniques such as tomography. With extensive illustrations of plant fossils and living plants, the book encourages readers to think of fossils as once-living organisms. It is written for students on introductory or intermediate courses in palaeobotany, palaeontology, plant evolutionary biology and plant science, and for amateurs interested in studying plant fossils.

A Natural History of Ferns
A Natural History of Ferns

Author: Robbin C. Moran

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2009-08-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781604690620

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A Natural History of Ferns is an entertaining and informative look at why ferns and their relatives are unique among plants. Ferns live in habitats from the tropics to polar latitudes, and unlike seed plants, which endow each seed with the resources to help their offspring, ferns reproduce by minute spores. There are floating ferns, ferns that climb or live on trees, and ferns that are trees. There are poisonous ferns, iridescent ferns, and resurrection ferns that survive desert heat and drought. This book is only available through print on demand. All interior art is black and white.

Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms
Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms

Author: K.U. Kramer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 366202604X

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This encyclopedia offers access to the diversity of ferns and seed plants, the most important groups of green land plants. Available information of general and systematic relevance is synthesized at the level of families. Evidence from virtually all disciplines important to modern taxonomy makes the work a most valuable source of reference not only for taxonomists, but for all who are interested in the various aspects of plant diversity. A revised classification includes a complete inventory of genera along with their diagnostic features, keys for identification, and references to the literature. The first volume deals with pteridophytes and gymnosperms.