Books by V. H. Heywood

Vernon H. Heywood, Ph.D., D.Sc., Hon.F.L.S., is Emeritus Professor of Botany at the University of Reading, UK, and previously Professor of Botany, University of Liverpool, UK. He was also Chief Scientist, Plant Conservation, of IUCN (The World Conservation Union) and Director of Botanic Gardens Conservation International. He holds Honorary Professorships at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, and at the Universidad "Juan Agustin Maza," Mendoza, Argentina, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions. He is a world authority on biodiversity and plant systematics, and his publications include more than 60 books and 500 papers on plant taxonomy and systematics, medicinal plants, scanning electron microscopy, ecology, conservation, botanic gardens and plant genetic resources.R. K. Brummitt, Ph.D., is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, where he was employed in the Herbarium from 1963 to 1999. He has worked on several African and north temperate Flora projects and has collected plants on every continent. Since 1975 he has been secretary of the Committee for the Nomenclature of Vascular Plants, and he is also secretary of a global floristic project, the Species Plantarum Programme. He has published the reference works Vascular Plant Families and Genera and (with C. E. Powell) Authors of Plant Names.Alastair Culham, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Plant Taxonomy at the University of Reading, UK. He is a specialist in the systematics of the Droseraceae and his research now encompasses many aspects of plant phylogeny, especially the use of DNA sequence data in systematics and the integration of morphology, distribution, and climate data into phylogenetic studies. He teaches plant taxonomy, including nomenclature, morphology and phylogenetics to both undergraduate and postgraduate students and has published more than 60 papers on systematics, conservation biology and horticultural taxonomy.Ole Seberg, Ph.D., Dr. Sc., is Professor of Molecular Systematics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark (University of Copenhagen). He has a classical taxonomic education coupled with a profound interest in historical biogeography. He is an authority on the systematics of the monocotyledons and has done fieldwork in many parts of the globe. He has published taxonomic revisions, theoretical papers and papers on biogeography, molecular systematics and evolution, floras and floristics.