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Author: Frederick B. Essig (Associate Professor Emeritus, Associate Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 16.50cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780199362646
ISBN 10: 0199362645
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 02 April 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
[T]hroughout, Plant Life is suffused with much of educational value for sharing with one's students * Nigel Chaffey, Annals of Botany Blog * An approachable and evolutionary-based initiation to general plant biological topics... Recommended. * A. L. Jacobsen, CHOICE * This wonderful little book assays plant diversity. It is the publication I suspect we all thought we would write when we taught our first course on plant diversity. After reading Plant Life I wished that I still taught a course on plant diversity, for this would be my textbook, given its clarity, simplicity, and elegance. * Larry Hufford, The Quarterly Review of Biology *
an approachable and evolutionary-based initiation to general plant biological topics... Recommended. A. L. Jacobsen, CHOICE
It is remarkable that these diverse studies are edited to generate such a great coherence. [...] Taken together, this volume fills an important gap, since it links vital aspects for policy, conservation, and management with a nuanced overview building on local to regional examples. In times of ever shorter publications, this book is a valuable contribution. It provides diverse and layered information, just as the topic of wildlife conservation in farmland that it focuses on. -- Henrik von Wehrden, The Quarterly Review of Biology This wonderful little book assays plant diversity. It is the publication I suspect we all thought we would write when we taught our first course on plant diversity. After reading Plant Life I wished that I still taught a course on plant diversity, for this would be my textbook, given its clarity, simplicity, and elegance. -- Larry Hufford, The Quarterly Review of Biology The author's narrative style introduces many of the topics commonly covered in introductory plant biology courses, and the book may serve as a valuable supplement for introductory courses by providing an approachable and evolutionary-based initiation to the general plant biological topics. ... Students studying plant biology may find this book a useful supplement to a traditional course text, and interested general readers will likely enjoy it as a stand-alone text or in combination with more technical plant biological readings. Recommended. --Choice Essig has done a great job in retracing almost 4 billion years of evolution ... that has resulted in the plant life with which we share the planet today. But not only that, Plant Life is also well written --right from the first page of chapter 1. So, whilst it has the educational value of a textbook (and each of the chapters could easily be used as the basis of a lecture--or several in some cases!), it is eminently readable. --Annals of Botany Blog
Author Information
"Frederick B. Essig is an Associate Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of South Florida. His career has included basic research on the systematics of palms and Clematis, service as Director of the USF Botanical Garden, and the teaching of biological diversity and botany. His work has taken him to Papua New Guinea, Australia, South Africa and tropical America. His most recent research publications include ""A systematic histological analysis of palm fruits. VIII. The Dypsidinae (Arecaceae)"" (Brittonia, 2008). He currently blogs about diverse aspects of plant life at botanyprofessor.blogspot.com."
