Herbarium The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World's Plants Barbara M Thiers

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9781604699302

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Timber Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1604699302
ISBN-13
9781604699302
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309774411

Product Key Features

Book Title
Herbarium : the Quest to Preserve and Classify the World's Plants
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Botany, Plants / General, Reference, Life Sciences / Horticulture
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science, Gardening
Author
Barbara M. Thiers
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
42.6 Oz
Item Length
10.5 in
Item Width
9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-553903
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"With lavish illustrations of places and people; portraits of key players; herbaria specimens; and beautiful, full-color artists' renderings, this carefully researched, detailed homage to herbaria will appeal to those deeply interested in plant exploration and botany." --Library Journal
Dewey Decimal
580.74
Synopsis
"A sweeping history of the origins, development, and future of herbaria and their role in plant consternation." --The American Gardener Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grew around them, organizing the specimens into collections. Known as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor. Herbarium is a fascinating enquiry into this unique field of plant biology, exploring how herbaria emerged and have changed over time, who promoted and contributed to them, and why they remain such an important source of data for their new role: understanding how the world's flora is changing. Barbara Thiers, director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden, also explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things at both the molecular level and on a global scale can be applied to herbaria specimens, helping us address some of the most critical problems facing the world today., The Herbarium tells the fascinating story of how herbaria began, what they are, how they have figured in the exploration of the natural world, what important contributions they have made, and how they function today. Barbara Thiers discusses how herbaria are under threat today and why we should care about their preservation. The book is heavily illustrated with photographs and unique historical material from the collection at The New York Botanical Garden, which is the second-largest herbarium in the world., Renaissance scholar Luca Ghini likely created the first one. Lewis and Clark, James Cook, Charles Darwin, and George Washington Carver all contributed to them. Today they number more than 3,300, spread across 178 countries. They are the repositories holding preserved specimens of our world's plants, fungi, and other organisms-each collection known as an herbarium. Together, the world's herbaria house nearly 390 million examples of what grows on planet Earth. In Herbarium, Barbara M. Thiers shares the intriguing and often dramatic accounts of how these collections came to be, the important role they have played through history, and the painstaking lengths both gatherers and botanists have gone to in the name of plant archiving. Thiers also argues passionately for the preservation of herbaria and for their essential function in protecting plant life for future generations. Illustrated with historical material from the collection at the New York Botanical Garden and a wide range of other herbaria, Herbarium is an important addition to the personal libraries of plant fans, conservationists, and anyone fascinated by the ways we identify and document our natural world. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
QK75

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