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THE IMPLICATIONS OF ECOLOGY FOR PLANT SYSTEMATICS
Author(s) -
Kruckeberg Arthur R.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1218592
Subject(s) - systematics , ecology , taxon , plant taxonomy , biology , functional ecology , taxonomy (biology) , evolutionary ecology , diversification (marketing strategy) , ecosystem , marketing , business , host (biology)
Summary It is plant taxonomists, not taxa, that make distinctions between the formal disciplines of ecology, evolution and systematics. For populations and species in the real world, however, there is an integrating attribute: discontinuity leading to isolation. How the ecologist can contribute to the study of disjunction is the central theme of this paper. The several areas of interaction between ecology, systematics and evolution are discussed. The contribution of ecological approaches to problems in taxonomy is illustrated with recent examples in each of the following subject areas: genecology (ecotypic variation), ecology of isolating mechanisms, ecological influences on hybridization and polyploidy, ecological bases for diversification in plant genera and families, and the use of ecological data in plant taxonomy.