Good (1947) floristic kingdoms Floristics is a study of the flora of some territory or area. Traditional phytogeography concerns itself largely with floristics and floristic classification, see floristic province. China has been a focus to botanist for its rich biota as it holds the record for the earliest known angiosperm megafossil.
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Jerzy Rzedowski Rotter (born December 27, 1926) is a Mexican botanist. His focus is on Mexican floristics, taxonomy, and ecology.
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Dr. Robert H. Mohlenbrock (born September 26, 1931) is an American botanist and author. He is an authority on the plants of Illinois, with expertise in floristics, plant taxonomy, endangered species, and wetland flora.
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Gereau has specialised in the Floristics and phytogeography of eastern Africa, he is also engaged in collaborative studies between ethnobotany and archeology. Gereau is noted for his contributions to the study of the Ancistrocladaceae, Mimosaceae and Sapindales of Africa.
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The latter has arisen from the hybridization of var. pubescens and B. nana (dwarf birch)Väre, H. 2001: Mountain birch taxonomy and floristics of mountain birch woodlands. – In Wielgolaski, E. (ed.) Nordic Mountain Birch Ecosystems. Man and the biosphere series 27: 35–46.
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John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, p. 10, . His Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien, from the third edition (1903) onwards, also included a sketch of the division of the earth into floral regions. Other important early works on floristics includes Augustin de Candolle (1820),de Candolle, Augustin (1820).
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Adaptations include hemispherical forms, a downy or waxy cover, a reduction of the exposed leaf area, and high flower production.C. Leuschner, Timberline and alpine vegetation on the tropical and warm-temperate oceanic islands of the world: elevation, structure and floristics, Vegetatio 123, 1996, pp. 193–206.
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Władysław Emanuel Lubomirski supported the Zoological Cabinet of the University of Warsaw, helping to purchase teaching aids and financing travel by employees of the university. He donated his collection of shells. He was interested in floristics and studied the behavior of plants in the changed climate conditions.
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His specimens, extensive archives and fieldbooks are housed in the University and Jepson Herbaria libraries and archives. Most of his specimens from California have been databased in the Jepson Online Interchange for California Floristics − Jepson eFlora (TJM2) and form a multi-institutional Consortium of California Herbaria database.
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Adaptations include acquiring semi-spherical forms, acquiring a downy or waxy cover, reducing the exposed leaf area, and having a high flower production.C. Leuschner, Timberline and alpine vegetation on the tropical and warm-temperate oceanic islands of the world: elevation, structure and floristics, Vegetatio 123, 1996, pp. 193–206.
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His work consisted of studies in the fields of floristics, phytogeography and plant systematics, of which he conducted systematic investigations of ferns and also plants from the genera Verbascum, Rubus, Salix, Rumex, Mentha, Rosa, Carex and Epilobium. During his career, he amassed a herbarium of over 210,000 specimens.
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The garden relocated to Claremont in 1951. The garden now contains some 70,000 native Californian plants, representing 2,000 native species, hybrids and cultivars. The garden has an active research department, specializing in systematic botany and floristics. The combined herbarium of the garden and neighboring Pomona College holds over 1,200,000 specimens.
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The limited number of woody species is thought to be due to repeated glaciation. Tasmanian cool temperate rainforest can be divided into four types: Callidendrous rainforest, Thamnic rainforest, Implicate rainforest and Open Montane. These four major types differ in many of their characteristics such as structure, floristics, distribution, level of endemism and ecology.
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Pillaged in the Persian invasion of 1795, the garden was revived in the early 19th century and officially established as the Tiflis Botanical Garden in 1845. From 1888 on, when a floristics center was set up, Yuri Voronov and several other notable scholars have worked for the Garden. Between 1896 and 1904, the Garden was expanded further westward.
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Ana María Crespo de las Casas (born 30 March 1948, Santa Cruz de Tenerife) is a Spanish lichenologist noted for studying the phytosociology, taxonomy and floristics of Mediterranean lichens. She was awarded the 2012 Acharius Medal from the International Association for Lichenology for lifetime achievements in lichenology, and the genera Crespoa, Cresponea and Cresporaphis were named in her honor.
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Professor Dostál published a number of professional, scientific and popular-scientific works in many fields of botany. His professional activities include higher plant systematics, taxonomy, floristics, morphology, phytosociology, phytogeography, Czechoslovak vegetation, dendrology, conservation, genetics and more. His major work was "Flora of Czechoslovakia" and "Key to the complete flora of Czechoslovakia." Professor Dostál 's diligence, his talent and vitality achieved international scientific recognition.
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Eugen Müller (b. 1880 in Gerhardsbrunn; d. 1955 in Ludwigshafen) — While a schoolteacher in Oberweiler- Tiefenbach, Müller dedicated himself to botany, particularly research into the blackberry (leading to a nickname, “Brombeermüller”, from Brombeere, the German word for blackberry), and he was said to be one of the Palatinate's foremost experts in floristics. He is now buried at Oberweiler-Tiefenbach's graveyard.
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Forest succession is the process by which species recover and regenerate after a disturbance. The type of disturbance, the climate and weather conditions, the presence of colonizing species, and the interactions among species all influence the path that succession will take. Species diversity and composition fluctuate throughout succession. The classic model of succession is known as relay floristics and refers to a relay of dominant species.
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At the time he started to work on Mexican floristics, very few studies were published in that field, so he became a pioneer in it. His research has involved extensive fieldwork. Afterwards, he became the most respected botanist in Mexico. He explored a lot of places surveying the local plant life and collected more than 50000 specimens that can be found in many herbaria.
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Ina Vandebroek is an ethnobotanist working in the areas of floristics, ethnobotany and community health. Since 2005, She has worked at The New York Botanical Garden in the Institute of Economic Botany. She has seventeen years of experience working on ethnobotanical projects in North America (including the Caribbean) and South America. She has conducted research and international cooperation projects in Bolivia, the Caribbean and New York City.
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Dr.Charlotte M. Taylor is a botanist and professor specialising in taxonomy and conservation. She works with the large plant family Rubiaceae, particularly found in the American tropics and in the tribes Palicoureeae and Psychotrieae. This plant family is an economically important group, as it includes plant species used to make coffee and quinine. Taylor also conducts work related to the floristics of Rubiaceae and morphological radiations of the group.
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His research with herbicides was one of the earliest attempts to experimentally test a hypothesis in plant ecology. Along with his numerous descriptive studies of vegetation, his work with herbicides helped Egler demonstrate that succession did not always go through the regular stages that Frederic E. Clements had proposed, but was as often determined by the composition of seeds present after a disturbance. This was Egler's “Initial Floristics” model.
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Parabouchetia brasiliensis is a slender herb with small narrow leaves and bearing small flowers.The Biology and Taxonomy of the Solanaceae edited by Hawkes, J.G., Lester, R.N. and Skelding, A.D. (Linnean Society Symposium Series Number 7) Published for the Linnean Society of London by Academic Press 1979 - principally page 75, forming part of Section I :Taxonomy and Floristics, paper 2: South American Solanaceae: a synoptic survey by Hunziker, Armando T.
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Common amongst all species of Psophodes, the surrounding flora has a ground layer of approximately 5 cm deep mainly made from sclerophyllous leaves. Between the species of Psophodes, there is a theme of preferences of structure over floristics. There is also a preference for broombush (Melaleuca uncinata) likely due to the rapid growth after fire, however, harvesting of this plant is a cause for concern for these birds.Woinarski, J., 1989.
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General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the botany of Terra Australis is an 1814 paper written by Robert Brown on the botany of Australia. It is significant as an early treatment of the biogeography and floristics of the flora of Australia; for its contributions to plant systematics, including the erection of eleven currently accepted families; and for its presentation of a number of important observations on flower morphology.
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Dr. Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein is a Brazilian botanist and professor at the Federal University of Goiás. She specializes in plant taxonomy, particularly floristics and the classification of spermatophytes. She is manager of the Federal University of Goiás' Conservation Unit, which consists of an herbarium, the August Forest of Saint Hilaire, and the Serra Dourada Biological Reserve. She has described at least five species of melonleaf in the genus Cayaponia.
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Floral design or floral arts is the art of creating flower arrangements in vases, bowls, baskets, or other containers, or making bouquets and compositions from cut flowers, foliages, herbs, ornamental grasses, and other plant materials. Often the terms "floral design" and "floristry" are considered synonymous. Florists are people who work with flowers and plants, generally at the retail level. Floristry differs from floristics, the study of distribution and relationships of plant species over geographic areas.
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Vladimir did research in the fields of floristics, plant taxonomy and phytogeography of plants, herbarium work, principles of organization of botanical gardens, history of botany. He became one of the first botanists to provide scientific descriptions of the flora of Indonesia, Tunisia, Algeria, and Central Asia. In particular, Vladimir Lipsky described 4 new genera, and 220 new species of plant, 45 of which are named after him. He also authored 82 printed works.
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Following closure of the Eldena agricultural college in 1877, he relocated to the University of Berlin as a professor of botany.Verhandlungen des botanischen Vereins der Provinz Brandenburg, Volumes 28-31 by Botanischer Verein der Provinz Brandenburg (obituary) He specialized in the fields of floristics and botanical history. In addition to his own writings, he completed Georg August Pritzel's "Die deutschen Volksnamen der Pflanzen" (The German common names of plants, 1882–84).Biography @ Deutsche Biographie.
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Otto Christian Leonor Gelert (9 November 1862 in Nybøl on Sundeved peninsula - 20 March 1899 in Copenhagen) was a Danish pharmacist and botanist, who specialized in plant floristics and systematics. He was a brother of sculptor Johannes Gelert. In 1883 he received his degree in pharmacy and subsequently worked as a druggist in the communities of Ribe and Horsens. From 1894 he worked as chemist at a sugar refinery in Tangermünde, Germany.
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2/1964, page 26 He found more than 400 plant taxa new to science, and established the beginning of research in geobotany and paleobotany in Bulgaria . He investigatd contemporary and historical plant geography of the Balkans and wrote papers on the vegetation of Pirin, Slavyanka, the Sofia Plain and the Danube islands. He wrote on the original phytoclimatic zoning of Bulgaria and the acclimatization of plants. He also worked on floristics, the morphology of plants and plant ecology.
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Next to Floristics he focused on Taxonomy of plants. In 1946 he published a monography Study of the genus Sesleria. Among botanists, he is considered to be a founder of Czech Ecology, thanks to a large Synecological study from Carpathian Ukraina. This comprehensive volume of Plants, soil and climate of Pop Ivan has been published in 1940 and serves until today as a unique comparison base for current research initiatives ("Deyl Alpine research station in Maramures Mountains").
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Grecescu was among the founders of research into floristics and phytogeography in Romania. He compiled a detailed inventory of Romania's flora, published in 1898 as Conspectul Florei României. The book includes 2450 species and 550 varieties, with precise details as to geographic range, growth conditions and popular names; the morpho- physiological descriptions are completed by pedoclimatic notes. In the same text, he introduced innovations into the de Candolle system, as well as now- obsolete contributions to botanical taxonomy.
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Rhodora is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the New England Botanical Club. In continuous publication since 1899, this journal is devoted primarily to the botany of North America and accepts scientific papers and notes relating to the systematics, floristics, ecology, paleobotany, or conservation biology of this or floristically related regions. Rhodora is issued four times a year, typically totaling 450 printed pages annually. Nishanta Rajakaruna is the appointed Editor-in-Chief of Rhodora and Kathleen McCauley is Managing Editor.
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In 2001, the land was transferred to the City of Stamford and operations were transferred to the Bartlett Arboretum Association, an independent non-profit organization. The Bartlett Arboretum Association continues to operate the grounds today. In 2006, the Arboretum began numerous research programs, continuing the tradition of research begun by Dr. Bartlett nearly a century earlier. Current research focuses on local plant ecology such as floristics and herbivory responses of Connecticut Forests, and the ecology and evolution of tropical plants, particularly the Araceae.
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He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Munich in 1878. Additionally he was a student of botanists Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868) and Otto Sendtner (1813–1859), and his spare time was devoted to floristics and classification of plants and fungi. His initial studies dealt with vascular plants, but his primary focus later shifted to lichens and bryophytes. Well known for his studies of herbarium specimens (exsiccatae), his personal herbarium contained approximately 150,000 specimens, largely consisting of lichens and lichenicolous fungi.
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He earned a master's degree in 1975 and a PhD in 1978, defending a doctoral thesis about the genus Karschia. In 2003, Hafellner received his habilitation. By this time, he had studied with French lichenologist André Bellemère (1927–2014) at Saint-Cloud, where he learned techniques of transmission electron microscopy and how their application in studying asci could be used in lichen systematics. His research interests include the classification and taxonomy of lichens and lichenicolous fungi and lichen floristics of the eastern European Alps.
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The first page of On the Proteaceae of Jussieu On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae, also published as "On the Proteaceae of Jussieu", was a paper written by Robert Brown on the taxonomy of the plant family Proteaceae. It was read to the Linnean Society of London in the first quarter of 1809, and published in March 1810. It is significant for its contribution to the systematics of Proteaceae, and to the floristics of Australia, and also for its application of palynology to systematics.
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During his career, Harshberger made notable contributions across a wide variety of botanical topics. He performed outstanding research work in mycology and plant pathology and was one of the first to recognize the threat posed by the chestnut-blight fungus.National Cyclopædia (1931) He also did work in the areas of economic botany, plant geography, conservation, ecology, and floristics. His most significant contribution was probably the monumental Phytographic Survey of North America (1911, 800 pages), an early attempt to classify and map plant communities in North America.
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Rhoads was hired to be a botanist by the Morris Arboretum in 1976, shortly after she completed her PhD. While working at the Morris Arboretum, Rhoads created a database of Pennsylvania plants and introduced Integrated pest management (IPM) practices. These accomplishments have been used locally in the Delaware Valley and as a model for other states. She retired from the Morris Arboretum in 2013. In addition, Rhoads contributed botanical images of Ribes rubrum to the SEINet data portal, a website which accesses “distributed data resources of interest to the environmental research community within Arizona and New Mexico….. SEINet is more than just a web site - it is a suite of data access technologies and a distributed network of collections, museums and agencies that provide environmental information.” Rhoads has said that her “research interests are focused on the floristics of Pennsylvania.” Floristics is the scientific study of the distribution of plants, especially on the regional level. Rhoads wants “to document the natural vegetation of the state and better understand historical and contemporary influences that have shaped the patterns of plant distribution we see today.” Her research has applications to climate change and how it will affect our local flora.
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Arthur Maillefer (25 July 1880 in Lausanne - 21 November 1960) was a Swiss botanist and plant geographer. He studied numerous classic botanical disciplines, including plant systematics and floristics. He also was very modern in his use of numerical analysis and mathematics. For instance, he made one of the earliest null models in biogeography showing that - in records of plant or animal species over space - genera accumulate much faster than species and thereby refuting Paul Jaccard's interpretation of the species-to- genus ratio in Jaccard's dispute with Alvar Palmgren.
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Taylor attributes her interest in plants to her parents, who were "serious bird watchers." However, she opted to study plants instead of birds because it afforded her more freedom to keep to her own research schedule. Taylor is married to Roy E. Gereau, an Assistant Curator at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Gereau's research interests include plant nomenclature, floristics and phytogeography of eastern Africa, plant conservation assessment in eastern Africa and in Africa generally, classification and identification of East African flowering plant genera, and taxonomy and systematics of African Sapindaceae.
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Bogumil Pawlowski (born 1898, died 1971) was a Polish botanist, a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, professor at the Jagiellonian University, and director of the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences in Kraków. His interests included plant taxonomy, floristics, phytogeography, and phytosociology. He was the author or co-author of over 100 papers in the field of botany, such as Flora Polska (with Władysław Szafer and Stanisław Kulczyński) describing Polish vegetation. He was also the regional adviser for Poland on the Flora Europaea project.
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See Madras Christian College magazines and MCC calendar for 1940 The institution has about 294 faculty members, over half of whom are doctorate-holders.See the college calendar for 2017–18 The Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology supports students in practical applications through their Phycolab PHYCOLAB and Center for Floristics Research FLORITICS, in addition to the regular courses. Several new species and new varieties in flowering plants, fossils and algae have been described by the staff of the department. A fossil specimen Araucarioxylon giftii named after Prof.
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Wendy Alison Nelson is a New Zealand marine scientist and world expert in phycology. She is New Zealand's leading authority on seaweeds. Nelson is particularly interested in the biosystematics of seaweeds/macroalgae of New Zealand, with research on floristics, evolution and phylogeny, as well as ecology, and life history studies of marine algae. Recently she has worked on the systematics and biology of red algae including coralline algae, distribution and diversity of seaweeds in harbours and soft sediment habitats, and seaweeds of the Ross Sea and Balleny Islands.
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Armstrong's special areas of interest include the taxonomy of duckweeds, lichen symbiosis, the fig and its symbiotic wasp, drift seeds and fruits that float across oceans, botanical jewelry and the coconut pearl hoax, poison oak immune response, amazing plants (botanical record-breakers), California floristics (including Brodiaeas in California), and the evolution and adaptations of organisms. He wrote a master's thesis on Cupressus. Although primarily a botanist, he has once again focused his attention on ant diversity, his childhood passion. He is a professor emeritus in the Life Sciences Department at Palomar College, San Marcos, California.
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The use of pesticides to control chironomids (non-biting midges) is a potential threat to aquatic invertebrate and bird life; in 1984 about 220 shorebirds were killed at the lake as a result of such spraying. Increased groundwater abstraction may exacerbate already declining water levels. The area of bulrushes in the fringing vegetation has increased and threatens its ecological character by changing its floristics, reducing the amount of open water, and reducing the area of mudflat available to migratory shorebirds. Disturbance of waterbirds by humans and dogs may occur, especially in late summer and autumn when the lake is drying out.
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Bushland in Western Australia Bushland in Brisbane set aside for the protection of koalas In Australia, Bushland is a blanket term for land which supports remnant vegetation or land which is disturbed but still retains a predominance of the original floristics and structure. Human survival in bushland has a whole mythology evolving around it, with the legendary stories of Aboriginal trackers and bushrangers deeply entrenched in Australian folklore. Bushland has been a traditional source of wood for fuel and bushfood. Bushland provides a number of ecosystem services including the protection of water quality, stopping erosion, acting as a windbreak, and trapping nutrients.
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Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original research on plant taxonomy and evolutionary botany with a worldwide scope, but with a particular focus on the floristics of the Western United States. Aliso, first published in 1948, is the scientific journal of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. The journal is named for the western sycamore, Platanus racemosa, which was commonly called by its Spanish name aliso. It is noted as the journal where Robert F. Thorne first published the Thorne system of flowering plant classification in 1968.
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This work also was a survey of the practices of systematic botany. In 1981 he published his landmark work, An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants. The work divided flowering plants into 2 classes with a number of subclasses and down to the family level, with each taxon being described and defined. The system would go on to be adopted by several major projects in floristics, including the Jepson Manual (1993), Flora of North America, Flora of China, Flora of Australia and of course Gleason and Cronquist's Manual of the Vascular Plants, which was published in 1991.
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The Broterian Society () is a botanical scientific society, the first of its kind in Portugal, established in 1880 by Júlio Henriques, professor of Botany and Agriculture at the University of Coimbra, to promote the development of botanical studies, particularly that of floristics, in Portugal.Statutes of the Broterian Society It is thus named after eminent naturalist Félix de Avelar Brotero, author of the first lengthy description of native Portuguese plants, Flora Lusitanica, in 1804. It has continuously published the Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana (Bol. Soc. Brot.), a scientific journal, since its inception; the first volume was published in 1883.
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These include the first explanation of the unusual construction of the "flower" (actually a pseudanthium) of Euphorbia; an explanation of the construction of the flowers of Eucalyptus; and observations on the venation of the petals of Asteraceae. He also expands on previous remarks on the fruits of conifers, and explains in detail his previous decision to separate the Poaceae into what are now Pooideae and Panicoideae. The paper concludes with comments on the vegetation and floristics of Australia, including comparisons with other continents. There is an interesting historical footnote in Brown's use of the term Australian throughout the paper.
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Over her career, Lucy Braun wrote four books and 180 articles published in over twenty journals. Her most remembered and lasting scholarly achievement was Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America (1950). Francis Fosberg said of her book "one can only say that it is a definitive work, and that it has reached a level of excellence seldom or never before attained in American ecology or vegetation science, at least in any work of comparable importance." The book was the culmination of her researches into vascular plant floristics and the composition of various deciduous forest plant communities, which had begun with her investigations of glaciated and unglaciated regions of southern Ohio.
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There is a more or less finished manuscript of the third part. As preparation for the flora one can to some extent consider the 3rd (1941) and 4th (1955) editions, prepared by Hylander, of the “Förteckning över Skandinaviens växter”, Index of Scandinavian plants, part :1 Vascular Plants, published by Lund Botanical Association. These editions contained several significant novelties for Nordic floristics both in terms of nomenclature and systematics, as more fully discussed in an important work “Nomenklatorische und systematische Studien über nordische Gefässpflanzen” (1945). Hylander's great insights into Nordic vascular plant taxonomy led to several international assignments, including as a regional adviser for Flora Europaea.
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First page of the original publication as Appendix V of James Hingston Tuckey's Narrative of an expedition to explore the River Zaire Observations, systematical and geographical, on the herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith, in the vicinity of the Congo, during the expedition to explore that river, under the command of Captain Tuckey, in the year 1816, also published as Observations, systematical and geographical, on Professor Christian Smith's collection of plants from the vicinity of the River Congo, is an 1818 paper written by Robert Brown on the botany of tropical Africa. It is significant for its contributions to plant systematics, and to African floristics and phytogeography.
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He was an opponent of tobacco and published several papers on the subject of tobacco addiction. Fink was not content to merely study lichen systematics and floristics, he was also absorbed with their ecology and physiology. His floristic studies are the ones for which the world now remembers him, especially his studies of Minnesota lichens and his "Lichen Flora of the United States" which was completed by his student Joyce Hedrick after his death. "Lichen Flora...", although difficult to exploit, is the only study for the United States that considers all lichen groups (1,578 species, varieties, and forms, belonging to 178 genera and 46 families).
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He is the founder of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment. 2017: Robin B. Foster for work on cataloging the flora of Barro Colorado Island in Panama and then developing the first of a network of tropical forest dynamics plots that has advanced study of tropical ecosystems and theories for their function and high biodiversity. 2018: Alan K. Graham for his work on understanding the origins and history of neotropical floras that has made particular use of pollen and microfossils. 2019: Sandra D Knapp tropical botanist and educator, advocate for conserving biodiversity, floristics, collections, the relationships between plants and people and particularly for her work with the Solanaceae.
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His studies in taxonomy and floristics yielded a substantial number of new taxa, among which stand out the Silene rothmaleri Pinto da Silva, Convolvulus Fernandes Pinto da Silva & Teles and Digitalis Heywoodii (Pinto da Silva & M. Silva), including new taxa for the flora of Portugal and the Azores and a better knowledge of the area of many plants and their nomenclature. Since 1958, despite the shortage of staff, he assembled a Phytochorion Atlas covering more than half the area of Portugal. He organized the herbarium of the National Agronomic Station, which under his action went from just over 3,000 to almost 100,000 entries. He also developed complementary collections (diaspore in Portuguese flora, paleoethnobotany, etc.) and miscellaneous files.
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Other perched lakes include Black Snake Lagoon, Ibis lagoon (whose melaleuca community is unique in structure and floristics from other melaleuca areas on the island), Welsby Lagoon, Native Companion Lagoon and the ephemeral Tortoise Lagoon within the Naree Budjong Djara National Park. Amity swamp suffered, in 1991, when up to 100,000 litres of diesel spilled from the sand mining company, Consolidated Rutile Limited [CRL]. This was not reported until 1994, the same year CRL was awarded a commendation in the inaugural State Government Award for Environmental Excellence. It was not until 1997 that the incident was acknowledged in CRL's Annual Report stating that the spill was expected to be cleared by 1999 – eight years after it occurred.
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Daniel Atha (born 1962) is a botanist. In his work as a botanist he has collected plants in all 50 states of the United States of America, as well as several additional countries. Atha's work is focused on three areas: "floristics—what plants grow in a particular region; taxonomy—how to tell one plant from another, what to call it and what it's related to; and applied botany—how plants are used for food, medicine, shelter and other useful purposes." Atha is a prominent regional botanist, and the high-profile botanical projects with which has been involved (such as the recent Spontaneous Flora of Central Park project) have garnered national and international attention.
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General remarks was published as Appendix III of Matthew Flinders' A Voyage to Terra Australis, and also simultaneously issued as an offprint with separate pagination. The paper begins with a brief summary of the voyage, followed by an acknowledgement of the specimen collections to which Brown was given access prior to the voyage. Brown then presents a broad summary of the floristics of the continent, noting that the proportion of dicotyledons is much smaller than would be expected in such a climate and latitude. It then provides a systematic arrangement of the Australian plants, broadly following the system presented by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his 1813 Théorie élémentaire de la botanique.
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Castanea: Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society. It was established in 1936 and covers the botany of the eastern United States, in particular systematics, floristics, ecology, physiology, and biochemistry. The journal name Castanea comes from the genus of chestnuts that were fresh in the minds of the founders of the society when the journal was established; the chestnut blight ravaged the American Chestnut, Castanea dentata, in the early part of the twentieth century and drastically changed the plant communities of the Appalachians. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 0.361.
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Demissew served as the Leader of the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea between 1996 until its completion in 2009 in collaboration with Inga Hedberg in which 6000 species with 10% endemic species are documented; the project involved 91 scientists from 17 countries. It is one of the few completed Floras in Africa. Demissew has participated in a number of successful collaborative research projects with universities in Europe and Africa including Oslo, Norway with Inger Nordal; Copenhagen, Denmark with Ib Friis; Marburg, Germany: the University of Leicester and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK; National Museums of Kenya, and South African National Botanical Institute in Cape Town & Pretoria, South Africa. These projects have addressed floristics, biosystematics, vegetation, evolution in Afro alpine environments and under- utilized indigenous crops.
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After a stand-replacing disturbance, shade-intolerant species colonize and grow into a dominant canopy, but due to their shade- intolerance they are unable to regenerate under their own canopy; the understory (composed of shade-tolerant species) gradually replaces the canopy, and due to its shade-tolerance it can regenerate under its own canopy and therefore becomes the dominant species. Often succession is not so complete or directed as the relay floristics model describes. Species can be mid-tolerant of shade and survive by taking advantage of small amounts of light coming through the canopy, and further disturbances can create small gaps. These and other factors can lead to a mixture of dominant species and a not so obvious “end” to succession (climax community).
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Alongside his teachers Nicolás Angulo Espino and Arnaldo López Miranda, which he greatly admired (he named after the later a genus and the journal he founded) and constantly referred to both in daily life and teachings, he is thought of as a pioneer of botany in Northern Peru. He considered fieldwork to be a major component of botanical research, and all his manuals, such as Fitogeografía General y del Perú ("General and Peruvian Phytogeography", six editions), were based on extensive fieldwork. All that fieldwork amounted to some 18 000 specimens distributed in Peruvian and American herbaria (mostly the Herbarium Antenor Orrego and the Herbarium Truxillense). He worked in multiple areas of botany, not only systematics, but also phytogeography, floristics and plant morphology.
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Until his postdoctoral work in La Plata, Argentina under Ángel Lulio Cabrera in the late 60s, Sagástegui had been interested primarily in Cyperaceae, with some forays into pteridology. By the time he obtained his doctorate, however, he had cemented a reputation as a specialist in the Asteraceae with over a dozen species to his name, mostly in Coreopsis and Verbesina. He would over the course of his career describe four new genera (Caxamarca, Jalcophila, Parachionolaena and Pseudoligandra) and nearly a hundred species in total, almost all of them composites, with 30 more named after him. He was especially interested in understanding the phytodiversity and floristics of Peru in general, and Northern Peru in particular, and his scientific production comprises approximately a hundred publications alone or in collaboration.
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In early 1809 he read his paper called On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae to the Linnean Society of London. This was subsequently published in March 1810 as On the Proteaceae of Jussieu. It is significant for its contribution to the systematics of Proteaceae, and to the floristics of Australia, and also for its application of palynology to systematics. This work was extensively plagiarised by Richard Anthony Salisbury, who had memorised much of the Linnean reading and then inserted it in Joseph Knight's 1809 publication On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae. In 1810, he published the results of his collecting in his famous Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen, the first systematic account of the Australian flora.
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