The Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, published quarterly since 1914, contains peer-reviewed papers primarily devoted to systematic botany and evolution. The Annals reflect the global mission of the Garden, with contributing authors from the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australasia.
This issue contains the proceedings of two conferences: the 43rd Annual Systematics Symposium of the Missouri Botanical Garden, New Tools for Investigating Biodiversity and the 1997 Midwestern Rare Plant Conference whose topics include: population biology and genetics, reproductive biology, demography, systematics, autecology, and monitoring and recovery strategies for rare taxa from the upper and lower Midwest as well as the Great Plains.
CONTENTS OF THE ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, VOL. 85, NUMBER 1
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Systematics Symposium of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Tools for Investigating Biodiversity, held October 4-5, 1996 in St. Louis
● Introduction. P. Mick Richardson
● An Ecological Perspective on Biodiversity Investigations: Examples from Australian Eucalypt Forests. Mike P. Austin
● Deciphering Landscape Mosaics of Neotropical Trees: GIS and Systematic Sampling Provide New Views of Tropical Rainforest Diversity. Deborah A. Clark
● Large-Area Mapping of Biodiversity. J. Michael Scott and Michael D. Jennings
● What Satellite Imagery and Large-Scale Field Studies Can Tell About Biodiversity Patterns in Amazonian Forests. Hanna Tuomisto
Selected Proceedings from the 1997 Midwestern Rare Plant Conference
● Introduction. Kayri Havens
● Factors Affecting Reproductive Success in a Rare Grass, Calamagrostis porteri subsp. insperata. Kayri Havens and Douglas L. Holland
● Microhabitat Relations of the Rare Reed Bent Grass, Calamagrostis porteri subsp. insperata (Poaceae), with Implications for Its Conservation. R. Todd Bittner and David J. Gibson
● Genetic Variation in Running Buffalo Clover (Trifolium stoloniferum: Fabaceae) Using Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Markers (RAPDs). Daniel J. Crawford, Elizabeth J. Esselman, Jennifer L. Windus, and Carol S. Pabin
● Population Genetics of the Cedar-Glade Endemic Astragalus bibullatus (Fabaceae) Using Isozymes. Carol J. Baskauf and Sharon Snapp
● Genetic Variability in the Federal Threatened Mead`s Milkweed, Asclepias meadii Torrey (Asclepiadaceae), as Determined by Allozyme Electrophoresis. Diane L. Tecic, Jenny L. McBride, Marlin L. Bowles and Daniel L. Nickrent
● Management and Restoration Ecology of the Federal Threatened Mead`s Milkweed, Asclepias meadii (Asclepiadaceae). M. L. Bowles, J. L. McBride and R. F. Betz
● The Pollination Ecology of Five Species of Penstemon (Scrophulariaceae) in the Tallgrass Prairie. Richard R. Clinebell II and Peter Bernhardt
A Combined Cladistic Analysis of Angiosperms Using rbcL and Non-Molecular Data Sets. Owi I. Nandi, Mark W. Chase and Peter K. Endress
Statistical Summary of Some of the Activities in the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium, 1997. Marshall R. Crosby