The Digital Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California

by Bruce G. Baldwin (Editor), Douglas Goldman (Editor), David J Keil (Editor), Robert Patterson (Editor), Thomas J. Rosatti (Editor)

Overview

The second edition of The Jepson Manual thoroughly updates this acclaimed work, the single most comprehensive resource on California's amazingly diverse flora. This work integrates the latest science, the results of intensive fieldwork, institutional collaboration, and the efforts of hundreds of contributing authors into an essential reference on California's native and naturalized vascular plants.

For the first time, the University of California Press is offering this resource as an e-book. The Digital Jepson Manual provides an unparalleled new level of interactivity, portability, and convenience. Extensive linking and e-book–friendly illustrations make it easier for users to learn about plant characteristics and identify the native and naturalized plants of California—all in a format ideally suited for use in the field. Using readily available e-book readers, field researchers, students, and enthusiasts can click on links to rapidly navigate through keys to families, genera, species, and subspecies or varieties. Specific features of The Digital Jepson Manual include the following:

—Keys link forward and backward to other taxonomic levels.

—Plate references in taxonomic treatments link to plates for rapid reference.

—Plate captions link to taxonomic treatments.

—Individual taxon figures appear next to species descriptions, and full plates are gathered in a special section.

—Glossary terms link to any relevant illustrations.

—List of families links each family to its taxonomic treatment.

—Index is fully linked to taxonomic treatments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520952898
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	02/07/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1600
Sales rank:	722,414
File size:	234 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Bruce G. Baldwin is Curator of the Jepson Herbarium and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Douglas H. Goldman is Herbarium Associate at the Harvard University Herbaria. David J. Keil is Professor Emeritus and Director of the Robert F. Hoover Herbarium at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.Robert W. Patterson is Professor of Biology at San Francisco State University. Thomas J. Rosatti is Specialist at the University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley. Dieter H. Wilken is Director of Conservation at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.

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The Jepson Manual

Vascular Plants of California

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By Bruce G. Baldwin, Douglas H. Goldman, David J. Keil, Robert Patterson Thomas J. Rosatti, Dieter H. Wilken

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Copyright © 2012 The Regents of the University of California
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-520-95289-8

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PREFACE

WILLIS LINN JEPSON (1867–1946) laid much of the foundation of California floristics through his life-long efforts to document and describe vascular plant diversity in the state. His extensive plant collections and library formed the nucleus of the Jepson Herbarium, established at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950; the herbarium continues Jepson's work to understand and conserve the state's flora and to communicate that knowledge to others. One of Jepson's major achievements as a botanist was his publication in 1925 of the first comprehensive statewide guide to vascular plant diversity, A Manual of the Flowering Plants of California. That book inspired and informed generations of botanists during a period when the California flora became famous as the subject of pioneering investigations in plant evolution and ecology. Jepson emphasized that a floristic work is never truly complete and final, and that further study must continue to advance knowledge. The productive years since publication of The Jepson Manual (1993) are testimony to such change and were the impetus for the international collaboration that produced this book.

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Table of Contents

Contents

Using This Ebook,
List of Families,
List of Plates,
Preface,
Introduction,
Philosophy,
Conventions Used in The Jepson Manual, Second Edition,
Abbreviations and Symbols,
Glossary,
Geographic Subdivisions of California,
Map: Geographic Subdivisions of California,
Hierarchical Outline of Geographic Subdivisions,
Geologic, Climatic, and Vegetation History of California,
Key to California Vascular Plant Families,
Taxonomic Treatments,
Lycophytes,
Ferns,
Gymnosperms,
Nymphaeales,
Magnoliids,
Ceratophyllales,
Eudicots,
Monocots,
Plates,
Cladogram,
Appendix. Numerical Summary of Taxa Treated in The Jepson Manual, Second Edition,
Acknowledgments,
Authors Contributing to The Jepson Manual, Second Edition,
Index,