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Author : Peter Henry Andrews Sneath,Robert R. Sokal
Publisher : W H Freeman & Company
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Classification
ISBN : 0716706970
Author : Robert R. Sokal,Peter Henry Andrews Sneath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Biology
ISBN : UOM:39015006517372
Author : Joseph Felsenstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642690242
The NATO Advanced Study Institute on Numerical Taxonomy took place on the 4th - 16th of July, 1982, at the Kur- und Kongresshotel Residenz in Bad Windsheim, Federal Republic of Germany. This volume is the proceedings of that meeting, and contains papers by over two-thirds of the participants in the Institute. Numerical taxonomy has been attracting increased attention from systematists and evolutionary biologists. It is an area which has been marked by debate and conflict, sometimes bitter. Happily, this meeting took place in an atmosphere of "GemUtlichkeit", though scarcely of unanimity. I believe that these papers will show that there is an increased understanding by each taxonomic school of each others' positions. This augurs a period in which the debates become more concrete and specific. Let us hope that they take place in a scientific atmosphere which has occasionally been lacking in the past. Since the order of presentation of papers in the meeting was affected by time constraints, I have taken the liberty of rearranging them into a more coherent subject ordering. The first group of papers, taken from the opening and closing days of the meeting, debate philosophies of classification. The next two sections have papers on congruence, clustering and ordination. A notable concern of these participants is the comparison and testing of classifications. This has been missing from many previous discussions of numerical classification.
Author : Peter Henry Andreas Sneath,Robert Reuben Sokal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Numerical taxonomy
ISBN : OCLC:463225563
Author : Gurcharan Singh
Publisher : Science Publishers
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 1578083516
"The book strikes a balance between classical fundamental information and the recent developments in plant systematics. Special attention has been devoted to the information on botanical nomenclature, identification and phylogeny of angiosperms with numerous relevant examples and detailed explanation of the important nomenclatural problems. An attempt has been made to present a continuity between orthodox and contemporary identification methods by working on a common example. The methods of identification using computers have been further explored to help better online identification. The chapter on cladistic methods has been totally revised, and molecular systematics discussed in considerable detail."--Jacket.
Author : Donald L.J. Quicke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401121347
Taxonomy is an ever-changing, controversial and exCitmg field of biology. It has not remained motionless since the days of its founding fathers in the last century, but, just as with other fields of endeavour, it continues to advance in leaps and bounds, both in procedure and in philosophy. These changes are not only of interest to other taxonomists, but have far reaching implications for much of the rest of biology, and they have the potential to reshape a great deal of current biological thought, because taxonomy underpins much of biological methodology. It is not only important that an ethologist. physiologist. biochemist or ecologist can obtain information about the identities of the species which they are investigating; biology is also uniquely dependent on the comparative method and on the need to generalize. Both of these necessitate knowledge of the evolutionary relationships between organisms. and it is the science of taxonomy that can develop testable phylogenetic hypotheses and ultimately provide the best estimates of evolutionary history and relationships.
Author : Ernst Mayr
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789388148597
This text is intended for senior or postgraduate courses in systematics, particularly animal taxonomy. Practical suggestions for taxonomic practice are included and explanations of the basic concepts of taxonomy are emphasized as well as the definition of traditional terms used in taxonomy. The treatment of taxonomy is in two parts. Part A is devoted to microtaxonomy and Part B is devoted to macrotaxonomy. There is a new chapter on the methods of numerical taxonomy, and an extensive treatment of the new approaches in taxonomy synopsis may belong to another edition of this title.
Author : Robert R. Sokal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Numerical taxonomy
ISBN : OCLC:217541756
Author : Rhodes W. Fairbridge,David Jablonski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822028279511
Scholarly work with lengthy entries followed by references for further reading. Many illustrations. Indexed.
Author : Roy Albert Crowson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Biology
ISBN : 9780202364865
"Classification of plants and animals is of basic interest to biologists in all fields because correct formulation and generalization are based on sound taxonomy. This book by a world authority relates traditional taxonomic studies to developments in biochemical and other fields. It provides guidelines for the integration of modern and traditional methods and explains the underlying principles and philosophy of systematics. The problems of zoological, botanical, and paleontological classifi cation are dealt with in great detail and microbial systematics briefly."--Provided by publisher
Author : Ashok Verma
Publisher : Alpha Science International, Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Animals
ISBN : 1842659448
Portrays the scientific quest regarding nomenclature, identification, interrelationship of different groups of animals along with different aspects of taxonomy from Linnaeus to present day Aspects related with biodiversity, information retrieval, collection and preservation of animals along with recent trends in animal taxonomy and biosystematics which culminates the description of one of the most interesting phenomenon of zoology. Each chapter contains logically organized, easy to understand contents that provides the reader important aspects of animal taxonomy. It is a complete manual for all biologists especially for those interested in understanding the basic concepts of taxonomy and conservation and management of biodiversity. This book will be invaluagle for undergraduate and postgraduate students of zoology as well as for those aspiring for competitive examination.
Author : Robert J. Glushko
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781491911716
Note about this ebook: This ebook exploits many advanced capabilities with images, hypertext, and interactivity and is optimized for EPUB3-compliant book readers, especially Apple's iBooks and browser plugins. These features may not work on all ebook readers. We organize things. We organize information, information about things, and information about information. Organizing is a fundamental issue in many professional fields, but these fields have only limited agreement in how they approach problems of organizing and in what they seek as their solutions. The Discipline of Organizing synthesizes insights from library science, information science, computer science, cognitive science, systems analysis, business, and other disciplines to create an Organizing System for understanding organizing. This framework is robust and forward-looking, enabling effective sharing of insights and design patterns between disciplines that weren’t possible before. The Professional Edition includes new and revised content about the active resources of the "Internet of Things," and how the field of Information Architecture can be viewed as a subset of the discipline of organizing. You’ll find: 600 tagged endnotes that connect to one or more of the contributing disciplines Nearly 60 new pictures and illustrations Links to cross-references and external citations Interactive study guides to test on key points The Professional Edition is ideal for practitioners and as a primary or supplemental text for graduate courses on information organization, content and knowledge management, and digital collections. FOR INSTRUCTORS: Supplemental materials (lecture notes, assignments, exams, etc.) are available at http://disciplineoforganizing.org. FOR STUDENTS: Make sure this is the edition you want to buy. There's a newer one and maybe your instructor has adopted that one instead.
Author : F. G. Priest,B. Austin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 041246120X
This second edition of Modern Bacterial Taxonomy has been completely revised and expanded to include detailed coverage of molecular systematics including relevant aspects of nucleic acid sequences, the construction of phylogenetic trees, typing of bacteria by restriction fragment length polymorphisms, DNA hybridization probes and the use of the polymerase chain reaction in bacterial systematics.
Author : Clive A. Stace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521427851
A concise, up-to-date and fully-integrated discussion of present-day plant taxonomy.
Author : Bozzano G Luisa
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323140508
An Introduction to Numerical Classification describes the rationale of numerical analyses by means of geometrical models or worked examples without possible extensive algebraic symbolism. Organized into 13 chapters, the book covers both the taxonomic and ecological aspects of numerical classification. After briefly presenting different terminologies used in this work, the book examines several types of biological classification, including classification by structure, proximity, similarity, and difference. It then describes various ecological and taxonomic data manipulations, such as data reduction, transformation, and standardization. Other chapters deal with the criteria for best computer classification and the complexities and difficulties in this classification. These difficulties are illustrated by reference to studies of the ""bottom communities"" of benthic marine invertebrates, ranging across the entire field from the sampling program and nature of the data to problems over the type of computer used. The concluding chapters consider some of the measures of diversity and the interpretations which have been made from them, as well as the relationship of diversity to classification. The concept and application in biological classification of various multivariate analyses are also discussed in these texts. Supplemental texts on the information measures, partitioning, and interdependence of data diversity are also provided. This book is of value to biologists and researchers who are interested in basic biological numerical classification.
