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This work, published in two volumes, contains descriptions of the
wood and bark anatomies of 3000 dicotyledonous plants of 120
families, highlighting the anatomical and phylogenetic diversity of
dicotyledonous plants of the Northern Hemisphere. The first volume
principally treats families of the Early Angiosperms, Eudicots,
Core Eudicots and Rosids, while the second concentrates on the
Asterids. Presented in Volume 1 are microsections of the xylem and
phloem of herbs, shrubs and trees of 1200 species and 85 families
of various life forms of the temperate zone along altitudinal
gradients from the lowland at the Mediterranean coast to the alpine
zone in Western Europe. The global perspective of the findings is
underlined by the analysis of 500 species from the Caucasus, the
Rocky Mountains and Andes, the subtropical zone on the Canary
Islands, the arid zones in the Sahara, in Eurasia, Arabia and
Southwest North America, and the boreal and arctic zones in Eurasia
and Canada. The presence of annual rings in all life forms
demonstrates that herbs and dwarf shrubs are an excellent tool for
the reconstruction of annual biomass production and the interannual
dynamic of plant associations. The common principle of the
anatomical expression of secondary growth is a key factor in
understanding evolution and adaptation processes in all life forms,
from the 2 cm tall whitlow grass (Draba arctica) in the arctic to
the 40 m tall beech (Fagus sylvatica) in Central European managed
forests. The study opens vast fields of research for
dendrochronology, wood anatomy, taxonomy and ecology.
This unique and attractive open access textbook combines the beauty
of macroscopic pictures of plant stems with the corresponding
colorfully stained images of anatomical micro-structures. In
contrast to most botanical textbooks, it presents all the stem
characteristics as photographs and shows the microscopic reality.
The amount of text is reduced to a minimum, and the scientific
information is highlighted with short legends and labeled
photographs, allowing readers to focus on the pictures to easily
understand how the anatomical structures relate to genetic,
ecological, decomposition and technical influences. It includes a
chapter devoted to simple anatomical preparation techniques, and
further chapters showing the cell content, cell walls, meristematic
tissues and stem structures of all major taxonomic units and
morphological growth forms in various ecological and climatic
regions from subarctic to equatorial latitudes, as well as
structures of fossil, subfossil and technically altered wood. This
textbook appeals to students and researchers in the fields of plant
anatomy, taxonomy, ecology, dendrochronology, history, plant
pathology, and evolutionary biology as well as to technologists.
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