1st Edition

Aquatic Dicotyledons of North America Ecology, Life History, and Systematics

By Donald H. Les Copyright 2020
1350 Pages 338 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

1350 Pages 338 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Aquatic Dicotyledons of North America: Ecology, Life History, and Systematics  brings together a wealth of information on the natural history, ecology, and systematics of North American aquatic plants. Most books on aquatic plants have a taxonomic focus and are intended primarily for identification. Instead, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the biology of major aquatic species... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Dicotyledons

Chapter 1 Dicotyledons I: The ANA Grade and "Magnoliid" Monosulcates

Chapter 2 Dicotyledons II: Basal Tricolpates

Eudicots (Tricolpate Dicots; Eudicotyledoneae)

Chapter 3 Core Eudicots: Dicotyledons III: "Caryophyllid" Tricolpates

Chapter 4 Core Eudicots: Dicotyledons IV: "Rosid" Tricolpates

Chapter 5 Core Eudicots: Dicotyledons V: "Asterid" Tricolpates

References

Index

Biography

Donald H. Les, Ph.D, is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA.

 

"Focusing on dicotyledonous plants considered obligatorily aquatic (i.e.,requiring water to complete some essential stage of their life history), this authoritative book offers an encyclopedic compendium of their essential characteristics, ecology, and biosystematic position.

It is hard not to be impressed by a work of this magnitude and the sustained effort involved in assembling it. Aquatic Dicotyledons of North America appears destined to become an indispensable reference for almost any study of wetland plant communities on our continent and beyond."

-William B. Sanders, Florida Gulf Coast University, Plant Science Bulletin Spring 2019