Bryophyte Biology - Hardcover

Goffinet, Bernard

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ISBN 10: 0521872251 ISBN 13: 9780521872256

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

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This fully updated and expanded new edition offers a complete overview of hornworts, liverworts, and mosses--diverse groups of land plants that occupy many habitats throughout the world. Revised classifications incorporate contributions from the most recent phylogenetic studies. Six new chapters have also been added, focusing on Physcomitrella to plant genomic research, population ecology of bryophytes, mechanisms of drought tolerance, a phylogenomic perspective on land plant evolution, and problems and progress of bryophyte speciation and conservation. Rich in primary source references and written by leaders in the field, this comprehensive text is suitable for advanced students and researchers.

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Book Description:

An extensive survey of hornworts, liverworts, and mosses for advanced students and researchers. This revised edition discusses fundamental topics in bryophyte biology, including morphological diagnoses, ecological significance, speciation, genomics, and conservation. With new chapters complementing updated ones from the original, it offers an expert analysis of the subject.

About the Author:

Bernard Goffinet completed his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, Canada. As a research associate of Dr A. J. Shaw he pursued his interest in the phylogeny of mosses, with a special focus on the evolution of entomophily in the dung mosses. He joined the University of Connecticut in 1999, where he is an associate professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He has co-authored nearly 70 publications. His current research spans choroplast genome evolution in liverworts, the phylogenetic history of the new model taxon, Physcomitrella patens, as well as the evolution of multisymbiosis in lichen-forming fungi.

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