Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"This edited volume provides researchers with an in-depth look at cutting-edge innovations in the art and science of taphonomy--the branch of paleontology that deals with the processes of fossilization--bringing them up to date on current knowledge and defining future directions for research"--

Fossilization --- Taphonomy --- Fossilization. --- Taphonomy.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both as a field guide for identifying taphonomic modifications in the field, and for use in the laboratory when collections of fossils are being analyzed. Images in the book are a combination of scanning electron micrographs, regular photographs, cross-sections of bones and line drawings and graphs. By providing good quality illustrations of taphonomic modifications, with links between similar types of modification, the atlas provides a reference source for identifying the agents responsible for the modifications, the processes by which they were formed, and the potential bias introduced by the processes. The authors also aim to emphasize on the directions they consider taphonomic studies should be headed. Firstly, we should seek to quantify the degree of bias introduced into a fossil fauna and to take account of this bias before interpreting the palaeoecology of the fossil site. Secondly, we should recognize that taphonomic modifications increase the information encoded in fossils by identifying perimortem and postmortem context s. This provides a more dynamic and realistic view of the past.

Earth sciences. --- Paleontology. --- Anthropology. --- Archaeology. --- Earth Sciences. --- Taphonomy --- Mammals, Fossil --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Fossilization --- Fossilification --- Fossilisation --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Taphonomy. --- Paleontology --- Paleontology . --- Human beings --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Amniotes, Fossil --- Vertebrates, Fossil --- Bioarchaeology --- Primitive societies --- Taphonomie --- Mammifères fossiles --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- Fossilization. --- Human remains (Archaeology). --- Mammals, Fossil. --- Social sciences

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This unique and attractive open access textbook combines the beauty of macroscopic pictures of plant stems with the corresponding colorfully stained images of anatomical micro-structures. In contrast to most botanical textbooks, it presents all the stem characteristics as photographs and shows the microscopic reality. The amount of text is reduced to a minimum, and the scientific information is highlighted with short legends and labeled photographs, allowing readers to focus on the pictures to easily understand how the anatomical structures relate to genetic, ecological, decomposition and technical influences. It includes a chapter devoted to simple anatomical preparation techniques, and further chapters showing the cell content, cell walls, meristematic tissues and stem structures of all major taxonomic units and morphological growth forms in various ecological and climatic regions from subarctic to equatorial latitudes, as well as structures of fossil, subfossil and technically altered wood. This textbook appeals to students and researchers in the fields of plant anatomy, taxonomy, ecology, dendrochronology, history, plant pathology, and evolutionary biology as well as to technologists.

Life sciences. --- Forest products. --- Plant anatomy. --- Plant development. --- Plant physiology. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Anatomy/Development. --- Plant Physiology. --- Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. --- Wood Science & Technology. --- Botany --- Plants --- Physiology --- Development of plants --- Plant development --- Developmental biology --- Growth (Plants) --- Plant structure --- Structural botany --- Vegetable anatomy --- Anatomy --- Forest production --- Botany, Economic --- Commercial products --- Raw materials --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Ontogeny --- Structure --- Wood. --- Building materials --- Forest products --- Trees --- Timber --- Plant systematics. --- Plant taxonomy. --- Botanical classification --- Botanical systematics --- Botanical taxonomy --- Classification --- Plant biosystematics --- Plant classification --- Plant systematics --- Plant taxonomy --- Systematic botany --- Systematics (Botany) --- Taxonomy, Plant --- Plant taxonomists --- Plant meristems --- Anatomy of pteridophyta --- Plant ecology --- Fossilization --- Stem evolution --- Plant morphology --- Plant stem construction --- Plant cell contents --- Wood degradation --- Plant cell walls