224 pages
300 Colour & b/w illust.
261 x 194 mm pages
Softcover edition:
ISBN: 978-1-874545-92-7
Price: £29.95
Hardcover
edition:
ISBN: 978-1-874545-70-5
Price: £48.00
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Bryan
G. Bowes, Senior
Lecturer, Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University
of Glasgow, UK.
Contributors: Don Blaxell (Australia), Bryan G. Bowes (UK),
N.A. C. Brown (South Africa), Eric Bunn (Australia), M. Clemente
Munoz (Spain), K.W. Dixon (Australia), Michael F. Fay (UK), ?David
Ingram (UK), José Iriondo (Spain), Paul Matthews (UK), Mike
Maunder (UK), Scott A. Merkele (USA), Valerie C. Pence (USA), C.
Perez (Spain), Ghillean T. Prance (UK), David Rae (UK), Margaret
M. Ramsay (UK), Ted St. John (USA), D.H. Touchell (Australia)
While
scientific and socio-political communities around the world are
aware of the natural and economic importance of biodiversity, we
are faced with an ever-increasing number of plant species under
threat of extinction. Conservation is thus a vital part of the plant
scientist's work, in the field, in botanic gardens and in universities.
This
colour atlas has been conceived to integrate the dual botanical
themes of plant propagation and conservation. Various texts deal
with propagation, in vivo and in vitro, and with aspects of conservation,
but none marries the two themes, let alone a book which uses the
concise, focused colour atlas approach.
Each
of the chapters has been written by an acknowledged international
authority on the subject, under the editorship of Dr Bryan Bowes
whose Colour Atlas of Plant Structure (1996) is already highly successful.
Topics range from the history and likely future of conservation
and the effects of human activity on plant diversity, to the practical
techniques of collection, preservation, germination, propagation
and management of plant populations in the laboratory and in the
field.
The
text is referenced and is illustrated throughout by colour photos
and photomicrographs of the highest quality. It will appeal worldwide
to students of conservation, plant science and biology, and to professionals
and academics, plant propagators, ecologists, and conservationists
working in botanic gardens, universities and colleges, in field
research and in nurseries specialising in indigenous plants.
Contents:
Chapter 1 - General Introduction, Chapter 2 - The
Rationale of Conservation, Chapter 3 - Plant Diversity -
Distribution and Measurement, Chapter 4 - Collection of Plant
Specimens in the Field, Chapter 5 - Propagation from Seeds
to Seed Preservation, Chapter 6 - The Role of Fire in Enhancing
Regeneration: The Situation in th Cape Floral Region, Chapter
7 - Vegetative Propagation from Stem Cuttings, Leaves and Roots,
Chapter 8 - In Vitro Propagation from Non-sterile Explants,
Chapter 9 - In Vitro Culture and Plant Conservation, Chapter
10 - In Vitro Collection in the Field, Chapter 11 - In
Vitro Propagation, Chapter 12 - In Vitro Preservation, Chapter
13 - Applications of In Vitro Culture for Conservation of Forest
Trees, Chapter 14 - Anatomical and Histo-Cytological Changes
in Regenerating Plants, Chapter 15 - The Role of Mycorrhizae
in Regeneration of Native Vegetation, Chapter 16 - Conservation
of Natural Populations, Chapter 17 - Conservation and the
Future. References. Index.
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