The rapid losses in phytodiversity in recent years have put an impetus on plant taxonomists to address the issues of collection, preservation, and storage of botanical materials for future use. Scientists are increasingly concerned that only 15 percent of plant and animal diversity has been catalogu...

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Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York [und 1 weiteren] Columbia University Press 1996
Subjects:	Botanical specimens > Collection and preservation > Congresses Artenreichtum Artenschutz Pflanzen Konferenzschrift > 1993 > Fort Worth Tex.
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	The rapid losses in phytodiversity in recent years have put an impetus on plant taxonomists to address the issues of collection, preservation, and storage of botanical materials for future use. Scientists are increasingly concerned that only 15 percent of plant and animal diversity has been catalogued to date. Samples collected in the next fifty years may well represent the last information on many plant species Botanists now realize that methods of documentation have been haphazard at best. Even today, materials gathered in the field are seldom scientifically handled, and recently acquired specimens often lack the most elemental details of location, ecology, and plant features. A clear program to chart and conserve the estimated 250-400,000 species of flowering plants and ferns is desperately needed In Sampling the Green World, twenty-one leading experts in systematic botany outline an intelligent plan for mapping phytodiversity in the next half century. Opening with an historical overview of the documentation of plant diversity and a consideration of societal and scientific needs from plant collections, the book suggests lessons for the future
Physical Description:	XVI, 289 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:	0231101368