Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Jane ChandlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fruit, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England: A summary and survey of findings in the light of recent botanical observations
Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Jane ChandlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fruit, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England: Supplement to the Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England
Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Jane ChandlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paleobotany
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Ginkgo
Author: Peter CranePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300190476
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
DIVPerhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first found it useful about a thousand years ago. Today ginkgo is beloved for the elegance of its leaves, prized for its edible nuts, and revered for its longevity. This engaging book tells the full and fascinating story of a tree that people saved from extinction—a story that offers hope for other botanical biographies that are still being written./divDIV /divDIVInspired by the historic ginkgo that has thrived in London’s Kew Gardens since the 1760s, renowned botanist Peter Crane explores the evolutionary history of the species from its mysterious origin through its proliferation, drastic decline, and ultimate resurgence. Crane also highlights the cultural and social significance of the ginkgo: its medicinal and nutritional uses, its power as a source of artistic and religious inspiration, and its importance as one of the world’s most popular street trees. Readers of this extraordinarily interesting book will be drawn to the nearest ginkgo, where they can experience firsthand the timeless beauty of the oldest tree on Earth./div
Geological Survey Bulletin
Author: General Technical Report INT
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Supplement to the Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England
Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Jane ChandlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fruit, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Woody Plants - Evolution and Distribution Since the Tertiary
Author: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher LeopoldinaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783211821244
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Paleobotany has enormously expanded the documentation of fossil plant groups, floras and vegetation types, supporting its conclusions by technically much improved analyses of microfossils (pollen) and anatomical details. An increasing quantity and quality of all these informations from the geosciences is available when we follow the history of the biosphere up to the present. Simultaneously, research from the biosciences on the morphology, ecology, distribution, systematics and evolution of extant vascular plants, and on the ecogeographical differentiation of the vegetation cover of our planet, has made enormous progress. Thus, a synthetic geo- and bioscientific approach becomes more and more feasible and urgent for further advances in the many problems of common concern. A symposium organized by the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher LEOPOLDINA", attractive to paleo- and neobotanists, stimulated the discussion between specialists of the two disciplines. The main results of the symposium are now presented in this volume: Sixteen international contributions outline the current knowledge about the historical differentiation and evolution of woody plant groups and forests, covering the whole biosphere. This survey, from the beginning of the Tertiary up to the present, is a first systhesis of relevant data from the geo- and biosciences.
Early Evolution of Flowers
Author: Peter K. EndressPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3709169100
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The recent discovery of a large number of excellently preserved fossil flowers, studied with new techniques, and the comparative study of the flowers of extant basal clades of the angiosperms revolutionized the conception of early flower evolution. This volume brings together contributions of 17 palaeo- and neobotanists including critical reviews on the origin of flowers and the homologies of angiosperm floral organs, on the relationships of floral traits of magnoliids to those of lower eudicots (ranunculids, hamamelidids, dilleniids) and monocots, and articles on particular new Cretaceous fossils and new results on extant groups. These studies also influence the notion of early angiosperm evolution and of the macrosystematics of flowering plants.
Woody Plants - Evolution and Distribution Since the Tertiary
Author: Friedrich EhrendorferPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3709139724
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Paleobotany has enormously expanded the documentation of fossil plant groups, floras and vegetation types, supporting its conclusions by technically much improved analyses of microfossils (pollen) and anatomical details. An increasing quantity and quality of all these informations from the geosciences is available when we follow the history of the biosphere up to the present. Simultaneously, research from the biosciences on the morphology, ecology, distribution, systematics and evolution of extant vascular plants, and on the ecogeographical differentiation of the vegetation cover of our planet, has made enormous progress. Thus, a synthetic geo- and bioscientific approach becomes more and more feasible and urgent for further advances in the many problems of common concern. A symposium organized by the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher LEOPOLDINA", attractive to paleo- and neobotanists, stimulated the discussion between specialists of the two disciplines. The main results of the symposium are now presented in this volume: Sixteen international contributions outline the current knowledge about the historical differentiation and evolution of woody plant groups and forests, covering the whole biosphere. This survey, from the beginning of the Tertiary up to the present, is a first systhesis of relevant data from the geo- and biosciences
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