Sampling the Green World: Innovative Concepts of Collection, Preservation, and Storage of Plant Diversity

Scientists are becoming increasingly concerned that only 15% of plant and animal diversity has been catalogued to date. In this text, 21 leading experts in systematic botany outline a plan for mapping phytodiversity in the next half century. The book opens with a historical overview and a consideration of societal and scientific needs from plant collections. The contributors provide a comprehensive look at the protocols and procedures for collecting, documenting, storing and preserving specimens and consider methods of retaining images for plants that cannot be sampled. The book closes with a discussion of techniques for dealing with specimens that have already been collected, considering that many storage environments may need to be improved.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231101368
• ISBN13: 9780231101363
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher