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Handbook of plant palaeoecology / R.T.J. Cappers, R. Neef

Author
Cappers, René T. J.
Additional Titles
Handbook of plant paleoecology and Plant palaeoecology
Published
Eelde, Netherlands : Barkuis Publishing, 2012.
Physical Description
475 pages : illustrations, charts, plans ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators
Neef, Reinder

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.General Introduction -- 1.1.Plant taxonomy -- 1.1.1.Taxonomic ranks -- 1.1.2.Abbreviations -- 1.1.3.Synonyms and type identifications -- 1.1.4.Naming of cultivated plants -- 1.1.5.Plant names in written sources -- 1.1.6.Vernacular names of common crops -- 1.1.7.Genetic research -- 1.2.Plant ecology -- 1.2.1.Seed production and seed predation -- 1.2.2.Seed dispersal -- 1.2.3.Environmental conditions -- 1.2.4.Water stress -- 1.2.5.Agricultural practices -- 1.3.Flora and vegetation -- 1.3.1.Landscape, flora, and vegetation -- 1.3.2.Flora -- 1.3.3.Vegetation -- 1.4.Subfossil plant remains -- 1.4.1.Biomolecules -- 1.4.2.Phytoliths -- 1.4.3.Spores and pollen -- 1.4.4.Seeds and fruits -- 2.Palynology -- 2.1.The archaeobotanical archive -- 2.1.1.Dispersal of spores and pollen -- 2.1.2.Pollen precipitation -- 2.1.3.Peat Formation -- 2.1.4.Sampling and microscopic analysis -- 2.2.Vegetation reconstruction -- 2.2.1.Pollen diagram -- 2.2.2.Anthropogenic pollen indicators -- 2.2.3.Pollen precipitation and vegetation -- 2.3.Pollen morphology -- 2.3.1.Anatomy and morphology of pollen and spores -- 2.3.2.Glossary of terms -- 2.3.3.Atlas of spores, pollen, and algae -- 3.Non-woody macro-remains -- 3.1.The archaeobotanical archive -- 3.1.1.Origin and taphonomy -- 3.1.2.Sampling -- 3.2.Morphology of fruits and seeds -- 3.2.1.Morphology of fruits -- 3.2.2.Fruit types -- 3.2.3.Morphology of seeds -- 3.2.4.Subfossil seeds, fruits, and threshing remains -- 3.2.5.Cereals -- 3.2.6.Pulses -- 3.2.7.Oil and fibre crops -- 3.2.8.Seed atlas -- 4.Vegetation history of the Netherlands -- 4.1.The Late Glacial -- 4.1.1.General overview -- 4.1.2.The Older Dryas -- 4.1.3.The Allerød -- 4.1.4.The Younger Dryas -- 4.2.The Holocene -- 4.2.1.General overview -- 4.2.2.The Preboreal (10 300-8800 BP) -- 4.2.3.The Boreal (8800-7500 BP) -- 4.2.4.The Atlanticum (7500-5000 BP) -- 4.2.5.The Subboreal (5000-2800 BP) -- 4.2.6.The Subatlanticum (2800 BP to present) -- 4.2.7.Case study -- 5.Food economy -- 5.1.Transition to farming -- 5.1.1.Modelling the dawn of farming -- 5.1.2.Domestication -- 5.2.Reconstruction of the diet -- 5.2.1.The food spectrum -- 5.2.2.Cereals -- 5.2.3.Pulses -- 5.2.4.Oil crops -- 5.2.5.Vegetables and fruits -- 5.2.6.Case studies -- 6.Fuel -- 6.1.Woody plants -- 6.2.Non-woody plants -- 7.Appendixes -- 7.1.Chronology of the Near East -- 7.2.Chronology of ancient Egypt -- 8.Literature -- 8.1.Taxonomy -- 8.2.Ecology -- 8.3.Flora and vegetation -- 8.4.Identification -- 8.5.Spores and pollen -- 8.6.Fruits, seeds, and mosses -- 8.7.Vegetation history -- 8.8.Food economy -- 8.9.Fuel -- 8.10.Additional references cited -- 9.Indices -- 9.1.Taxonomic and syntaxonomic index.
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ISBN
9789491431074
9491431072
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-454) and indexes.
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