Recensione:
'The first volumes of FNA are finally out, and what a magnificent production they are. Volume 1 contains many fine essays giving an overview for the flora of The United States, Canada, and Greenland.'Rudolf Schmid, University of California, Taxon Vol. 43 (February 1994)
'the first comprehensive continental flora of North America ... "Vegetation," by M.G. Barbour and N.C. Christensen presents a clear, concise classification of major vegetation types. This volume is copiously illustrated with excellent maps, graphs, and photos, including numerous portraits of historical figures in North American botany ... the botanical information is presented in a competent fashion.'Western Journal of Applied Forestry
'This authoritative, many-headed work is centred at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. The work draws authority from real plant specimens ... This is a dictionary of plant species, the working vocabulary of plant biodiversity, as essential to its knowing, productive users as any big dictionary ... its purpose is to become the arbiter of our plants for conservation and study.'Scientific American, May 1994
The Flora is the result of enormous effort and enthusiasm of many sicentists forming the Editorial Committee. ... Almost all of the descriptions will be written by specilists in the practical groups. ... The Flora of North America north of Mexico is a very good, gigantic synthesis of information published separately in individual taxonomical monographs and regional floras, that are now easily accessible to both botanists and laymen throughout the world. This is the most important fact for us European botanists, so we will anticipate the publication of the next volumes with considerable interest. (Folia Geobotanica & Phytotaxonomica, 32/7, 1997)
Contenuti:
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- History of the Flora of North America Project
- A. Physical Setting of North America
- 1: Luc Brouillet and R. David Whetstone: Physiography and Climate of North America
- 2: Donald Steila: The Coils of North America
- B. Paleofloristics, Paleovegetation, and Paleoclimates
- 3: Alan Graham: History of the North American Vegetation - Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) - Tertiary
- 4: Paul A. Delcourt and Hazel R. Delcourt: Paleoclimates, Paleovegetation, and the Paleofloras of North America During the Late Quarternary
- C. Contemporary Vegetation and Floristics
- 5: Michael Barbour and Norman Christensen: Vegetation of North America North of Mexico
- 6: Robert F. Thorne: Phytogeography of North America North of Mexico
- D. Humankind and the Flora
- 7: James Reveal and James Pringle: Taxonomic Botany and Floristics in North America North of Mexico: A Review
- 8: Ronald Stuckey and Theodore Barkley: Weeds in North America
- 9: Charles B. Heiser Jr.: Ethnobotany and Economic Botany of the North American Flora
- 10: George Yatskievych and Richard Spellenberg: Plant Conservation in the Flora of North America America Region
- E. Classification Systems Used in the Flora of North America
- 11: G. Ledyard Stebbins: Concepts of Species, Genera, and Ranks
- 12: Warren H. Wagner Jr. and Alan R. Smith: Pteridophytes of North America
- 13: James Eckenwalder: Gymnosperm Classification
- 14: Arthur Cronquist: A Commentary on the General System of Classification of Flowering Plants
- 15: James Reveal: Flowering Plant Families: An Overview
- Literature Cited
- Index to Authors
- Index
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