Woody Plants - Evolution and Distribution Since the Tertiary: Proceedings of a Symposium Organized by Deutsche Akademie Der Naturforscher LEOPOLDINA in Halle/Saale, German Democratic Republic, October 9-11, 1986Paleobotany 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. |
Contents
Paleogeography and historical phytogeography paleochorology in the Neophyticum | 5 |
Evolution of the Australian flora through the Tertiary | 63 |
Development and regional differentiation of the European vegetation during the Tertiary | 79 |
Paleobotanical evidences of the Tertiary history and origin of the Mediterranean sclerophyll dendroflora | 93 |
History of the montane forests of the northern Andes | 109 |
Late Quaternary vegetation history of the Mexican highland | 115 |
Mediterranean pines and their history | 133 |
Paleobotanical evidence on the early radiation of nonmagnoliid dicotyledons | 165 |
Paleobotanical studies in Fagaceae of the European Tertiary | 213 |
Early history of the Juglandaceae | 231 |
Aspects of the fossil record and phylogeny of the family Rutaceae Zanthoxyleae Toddalioideae | 251 |
aspects of its differentiation in space and time | 267 |
The ecogeographical differentiation of Amazonian inundation forests | 285 |
Chorology of the Euxinian and Hyrcanian element in the woody flora of Asia | 305 |
Ecogeographical differentiation of the Submediterranean deciduous forest flora | 315 |
Aspects of evolutionary differentiation of the Hamamelidaceae and the Lower Hamamelididae | 193 |
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Africa Alnus Amazonia angiosperm anther apophyses Asia Australia basal Basin BENTH Buxus canariensis carpels Chloranthaceae CHRISTOPHEL climatic cone CRANE differentiation DILCHER distribution diversity Early Tertiary elements ENDRESS Eocene Eurasiatic Europe European Euxinian evidence evolution excentromucronate exine extant Fagaceae floristic forests Formation fossil fossil record FRIIS fruits genera genus Geol GREGOR halepensis Hamamelidaceae Hamamelididae HICKEY inflorescences infructescence Juglandaceae juglandaceous KRUTZSCH KVAČEK leaf Lower Miocene MANCHESTER Mediterranean pines megafossil MEUSEL Mid Cretaceous Middle Eocene Miocene Missouri Bot morphology mucro MULLER North America Nothofagus Nypa occur Oligocene Palaeontographica paleobotanical Paleocene Paleochorology Palynology patterns period pinaster pinea Pinus plants Platanaceae platanoid Platanus Platycarya Pleistocene Pliocene pollen pollen grains pollen types present Proteaceae Quercus region Restionaceae roxburghii Rutaceae Rutaspermum sclerophyllous sect seeds similar southern species subsect subsp Symplocos taxa Tertiär Tertiary floras Tethyan Tethys Tetracentron Toddalia Trigonobalanus Trochodendrales tropical umbo Upper Cretaceous vegetation venation Zanthoxylum