Paleontologists have always been concerned about the documentary quality of the fossil
record, and this has also become an important issue for biologists, who increasingly look to …

▪ Abstract Paleontologists have always been concerned about the documentary quality of
the fossil record, and this has also become an important issue for biologists, who …

Taphonomy plays diverse roles in paleobiology. These include assessing sample quality
relevant to ecologic, biogeographic, and evolutionary questions, diagnosing the roles of …

The biodiversity of the Himalaya, Hengduan Mountains and Tibet, here collectively termed
the Tibetan Region, is exceptional in a global context. To contextualize and understand the …

What role did plant resources have in the evolution of the human species? Why and how
have plants been managed and transported to new environments? Where, how, and why …

The first palaeoecology book to focus on evolutionary palaeoecology, in both marine and
terrestrial environments. Discusses reconstruction of the past ecological world at population …

The origins of angiosperms are still debated, despite many years of work by scientists from
differing disciplines. The progress made toward resolving the problem is reviewed in this …

Deserts are stressful environments where the living beings must acquire different strategies
to survive due to the water stress conditions. From the late Albian to the early Cenomanian …

Continental depositional environments preserve the majority of the macrofloral record since
the advent of land-plant colonization in the mid-Paleozoic, and wetland representatives are …

The study of well-preserved organic matter (OM) within mineral concretions has provided
key insights into depositional and environmental conditions in deep time. Concretions of …