Plants, People, and Paleoecology
Author : Frances B. King
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Frances B. King
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Wilson N. Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 1993-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521382946
This 1993 textbook describes and explains the origin and evolution of plants as revealed by the fossil record.
Author : Frances B. King
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Biotic communities
ISBN : 9780897921008
Author : Marco Madella
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178297430X
Phytoliths - rigid microscopic bodies that occur in most plant species - have gone a long way since that day when Darwin became curious about a fine powder deposited on the instruments of the HMS Beagle. This fascinating subject started because of curiosity, and in that respect it was a good start since curiosity is probably the most important drive behind first-rate research. Fortunately curiosity is still present in phytolith research; the articles in this book are full of curiosity and ingenuity. Phytolith research has grown since the times of Darwin and in the last three decades has bloomed. The papers in this collection span most of the application of phytolith analysis (from archaeology, palaeoenvironmental studies and botany, to name just some) and the majority of them were presented at the 4th International Meeting on Phytolith Research that was held in Cambridge (UK) in August 2002.
Author : René T. J. Cappers
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9491431072
Plant palaeoecologists use data from plant fossils and plant subfossils to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. This book deals with the study of subfossil plant material retrieved from archaeological excavations and cores dated to the Late Glacial and Holocene. One of the main objectives of this book is to describe the processes that underlie the formation of the archaeobotanical archive and the ultimate composition of the archaeobotanical records, being the data that are sampled and identified from this immense archive. Our understanding of these processes benefits from a knowledge of plant ecology and traditional agricultural practices and food processing. This handbook summarizes the basic ecological principles that relate to the reconstruction of former vegetations and of agricultural practices in particular. We hope this book will help palaeobotanists, environmental archaeologists, and colleagues from related disciplines optimize inferences based on what we could term old-style archaeobotany. And we hope that our observations will serve as an eye-opener and improve future research, not only as it is practised in our laboratories, but also as it is practised in the field.
Author : Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 1992-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226041557
Breathtaking in scope, this is the first survey of the entire ecological history of life on land—from the earliest traces of terrestrial organisms over 400 million years ago to the beginning of human agriculture. By providing myriad insights into the unique ecological information contained in the fossil record, it establishes a new and ambitious basis for the study of evolutionary paleoecology of land ecosystems. A joint undertaking of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Consortium at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and twenty-six additional researchers, this book begins with four chapters that lay out the theoretical background and methodology of the science of evolutionary paleoecology. Included are a comprehensive review of the taphonomy and paleoenvironmental settings of fossil deposits as well as guidelines for developing ecological characterizations of extinct organisms and the communities in which they lived. The remaining three chapters treat the history of terrestrial ecosystems through geological time, emphasizing how ecological interactions have changed, the rate and tempo of ecosystem change, the role of exogenous "forcing factors" in generating ecological change, and the effect of ecological factors on the evolution of biological diversity. The six principal authors of this volume are all associated with the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems program at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
Author : Shripad N. Agashe
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN :
Text book in paleobotany with special reference to India.
Author : Valentin Abramovich Krasilov
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : Karl J. Niklas
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 1981-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780275906900
Author : William A. DiMichele
Publisher :
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Paleobotany
ISBN : 9780931377020