Progress of palaeobotanical research in 2006 and 2007
Titel:
Progress of palaeobotanical research in 2006 and 2007
Auteur:
KVACEK, Z. SAKALA, J.
Verschenen in:
Bulletin of geosciences
Paginering:
Jaargang 82 (2007) nr. 4 pagina's 299-300
Jaar:
2007
Inhoud:
Editorial. In 2006 Europe was host to several international meetings focusing on palaeobotany and palynology. One of these majormeetings was the 7th European Palaeobotany-Palynology Conference, 6–12th September, 2006 in Prague. Around 300 palaeobotanists and palynologists from more than 40 countries including several in Europe, Argentina, China, Egypt, India, Japan, and USA participated in this meeting. The conference program was divided into five parallel sections – Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, Tertiary, Quaternary, and Special topics. Besides oral presentations almost 150 posters were presented and several meetings of special groups were included into the program, namely those of the Neogene Climate Evolution in Eurasia(NECLIME) project, the International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA) group and IGCP project No. 469: Variscan Terrestrial Biotas and Palaeoenvironments. The Czech National Museum issued especially for the occasion of the 7th EPPC a facsimile on DVD of the monograph by Kaspar Maria Sternberg (1820–1838), Versuch einer Darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt, and organized a workshop devoted to the history of palaeobotany.<br>The results of the conference were issued in an abbreviated form as an abstract book of the 7th EPPC issued by the NationalMuseum in Prague (Teodoridis et al. 2006). In order to disseminate information in more detail the organisers invited participants to submit extended manuscripts on subjects of the lectures. The present volume of our Bulletin includes the first part of contributions with the intention to continue this series later.The papers that have been selected and prepared for this special issue of the Bulletin of Geosciences concern mainly theCenozoic although three contributions on Mesozoic and Palaeozoic plants are also included. Most of them deal with thetaxonomic problems together with palaeoecological and palaeoclimatological interpretations and phytostratigraphy. Someaddress nomenclature, vegetation, growth forms and similar aspects of fossil plant studies.
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