New Book About Carnivorous Plants

Researchers from around the world, led by HF Senior Ecologist Aaron Ellison, have just published a major scientific synthesis on the physiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology of carnivorous plants.

Until now, there have only been three major scientific treatments of what Charles Darwin called “the most wonderful plants in the world.” Darwin himself wrote the first one in 1875 (Insectivorous Plants), Francis Lloyd wrote the second in 1942 (The Carnivorous Plants), and Barrie Juniper et al. the third in 1989 (The Carnivorous Plants).

Oxford University Press is now publishing the fourth: Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution, edited by Aaron Ellison (Harvard Forest) and Lubomír Adamec (Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic). With contributions from Ellison, Adamec, and more than 50 other researchers from around the world, this new volume is a state-of-the-art synthesis of the genomics, biochemistry, physiology, ecology, evolution, and conservation biology of the more than 800 species of carnivorous plants.

• Learn more about the book. 
• Learn more about carnivorous plant research at Harvard Forest.