在植物标本室:收集和保存植物的隐秘世界 In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants 英文原版 Maura C Flannery
基本信息
Format Hardback | 336 pages
Dimensions 156 x 235mm
Publication date 25 Jul 2023
Publisher Yale University Press
Publication City/Country United States
Language English
ISBN10 0300247915
ISBN13 9780300247916
书籍信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准
书籍简介
标本馆如何照亮植物科学的过去和未来
被称为标本馆的保存植物标本的收藏，已经存在了近五个世纪。这些经过压制和标记的植物一直是科学家的重要资源，使他们能够描述和区分物种，并记录和研究植物随时间变化和生物多样性，包括与气候有关的变化。
Maura C. Flannery讲述了标本馆的历史，从开始的属于16世纪植物学家Luca Ghini等技术倡导者的收藏，到诗人、政治家和画家的收藏，再到今天这些珍贵标本的数字化。她描绘了探索时代标本馆的发展、组织收藏品的分类系统的发展，以及标本馆在追踪气候变化和分子进化方面不可或缺的作用。标本馆还具有历史、美学、文化和民族植物学价值--这些被保存的植物可以与使用它们的原住民、寻找它们的收藏家以及研究它们的科学家联系起来。
本书证明了标本馆在植物研究史上的核心作用，也证明了标本馆的持续价值，不仅对生物学家，而且对全新的使用者：园丁、艺术家、学生和公民科学家。
How herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science
Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants have been essential resources for scientists, allowing them to describe and differentiate species and to document and research plant changes and biodiversity over time-including changes related to climate.
Maura C. Flannery tells the history of herbaria, from the earliest collections belonging to such advocates of the technique as sixteenth-century botanist Luca Ghini, to the collections of poets, politicians, and painters, and to the digitization of these precious specimens today. She charts the growth of herbaria during the Age of Exploration, the development of classification systems to organize the collections, and herbaria's indispensable role in the tracking of climate change and molecular evolution. Herbaria also have historical, aesthetic, cultural, and ethnobotanical value-these preserved plants can be linked to the Indigenous peoples who used them, the collectors who sought them out, and the scientists who studied them.
This book testifies to the central role of herbaria in the history of plant study and to their continued value, not only to biologists but to entirely new users as well: gardeners, artists, students, and citizen-scientists.
作者简介
Maura C. Flannery是纽约圣约翰大学的生物学名誉教授，也是南卡罗来纳大学A. C. Moore标本馆的研究成员。她是之前两本书的作者她住在南卡罗来纳州的艾肯市。
Maura C. Flannery is professor emerita of biology at St. John's University, New York, and research affiliate in the A. C. Moore Herbarium at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of two previous books and a blog, herbariumworld.wordpress.com. She lives in Aiken, SC.
