Introduction Botany

Symposium on scientific literacy: Introduction.

Chlorophyll fluorescence--a practical guide.

Chlorophyll fluorescence analysis has become one of the most powerful and widely used techniques available to plant physiologists and ecophysiologists. This review aims to provide an introduction for the novice into the methodology and applications of chlorophyll fluorescence. After a brief introduction into the theoretical background of the technique, the methodology and some of the technical ...

An Introduction to Stereological Analysis: Morphometric Techniques for Beginning Biologists

Marshall Sundberg is Associate Professor of Botany at Louisiana State University. He received his B.A. (1971) from Carleton College and M.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1978) from the University of Minnesota. From 1978 he has was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. In 1985 he moved to LSU where he coordinates the biology program. His research interests are in the flowering plant dev...

Anagenetic evolution in island plants

The origin of new species on oceanic islands has been discussed on many occasions (Carlquist, 1974; Grant, 1996). The most commonly described process is speciation associated with adaptive radiation (Stuessy & Ono, 1998; Schluter, 2000), in which from a single introduction several lines of speciation occur, each driven by selection within markedly different ecological zones. Morphological diver...

An Introduction to the Plant Sciences

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PLANT SCIENCES By WILLIAM C. DARRAH, Tutor in the Department of Biology and Research Curator in the Botanical Museum, Harvard University. This book offers a concise, humanistic account, of the nature of the plant kingdom. It is intended for use by students in a half-year or one-semester course in botany or plant biology. Emphasis is placed on these four recent development...